Deutsch – Überwachen und Sprache

30C3 "Überwachen und Sprache"

Welcome to my talk. Thanks for your nice introduction and the nice welcoming from you guys!

You see the talk has the allusive name "Surveillance and language"

which obviously alludes to Foucault with "Surveillance and punish" (Discipline and Punish in English)

However, long before Foucault presented the genesis of the disciplinary society,

you find a lovely moral tale in a children's book,

which is named "The Kid in the glass house" by Heinrich Oswalt, written in 1877 and very foreshadowing

In Frankfurt lives a glazier master,
Mr. Lebrecht Sheibenmann his name;

He had a little daughter,
Who never wanted to be washed.

And Gretchen came with sponge and soap,
So the bad girl ran away;

It even flipped the washing table -
The water flooded the house.

So Mr. Lebrecht Scheibenmann began
to build a strange house,

A house made only of glass, that, alas!
Was transparent throughout.

And in this glass house
the bad daughter was then seated.

So that, in order to see,
People stopped on the street.

So the kid was ashamed and ran around
In the entire house and screamed:

"Where can I hide?
You can see me from everywhere!

The roof, the cellar, every room
Is made of glass! you can always see me!"

The mother said: "My dear child!
There is a quick fix to that:

If people see you decent
They will pass by;

[...]
The daughter remembered that;
And tried to be seemly.

And because it no longer screamed while washing,
Other people never laughed;

Since everyone who peeked into the house,
Sees a kid that's very seemly.

And if you have your own child, you people,
That always screams while washing,

Just tell it Mr. Lebrecht Scheibenmann,
He will deliver you a glass house immediately.

Yes, there... tentative approaches to applausing laughs
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Yes, interesting story, that is certainly fitting for our times

as Lebrecht Scheibenmann is named Keith Alexander and works for the NSA

The NSA has made glass houses out of all our homes

we can all be seen in these glass houses

and you don't know, or at least I'm quite sure that one pursues educational purposes

that certain actions are no longer acceptable

and that we internalize this observation

Regarding this observation, language obviously plays a very important role

Many of our statements take place in the medium of language

This has also given hackers the idea to trick the NSA with a site like "Hello NSA"

A website which assembles suspicious words into messages like a "bullshitter"

and these are then tweeted, mailed or chatted upon

to achieve something like the "operation Troll the NSA:

that you can jam the NSA scanners, so that you can execute a DDOS attack

simply by sending too much content, which is basically suspicious on the basis of keywords

The point of my presentation is showing that the image of the NSA is wrong.

We cannot assume that at the NSA people really print something

as soon as a keyword is displayed and laughter start to analyse everything

and look at it closer and do a qualitative evaluation

and this certainly is a very intensive task

and therefore a keyword spam DDoS would certainly be ineffective

You all have probably read the thanksgiving talkingpoints of the NSA.

I don't know if you stumbled across it, that under the 4th point there is something utterly important

"NSA brings together the best linguists, analysts, mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists

in the United States."
and the linguists are named first.

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So you can see that the NSA is definitely aware of language as an important medium

and which is also very important to them. In that it surely makes sense to deal with that

It happens that the secretary of the Interior has leaked the most recent analysing software, the "Advanced Security Toolkit"

Developed by the Von-Leitner-Institute for distributed realtime java. laughter

First, we'll look at today's mission.

Today's task is to check out the German blogosphere

that seems to be radicalizing since the government's take-over by the grand coalition

it's important to check if actions are in preparation to identify radical subjects if necessary,

which are especially striking. As a start, we choose our targets, of course some are suggested to us

Unfortunately I can only present a small selection of possible targets. I would have loved to take more

There are a few socio-critical blogs and news sites

like blog.fefe.de, Indymedia, Mädchenmannschaft, Netzpolitik.org, rebellmarkt.blogger.de

And religiously motivated websites like kreuz.net islambruderschaft.com blog and discussion board salafistic

and of course we confirm the selection. This is a very sensitive selection

The following analyses are possible. Naturally, I can only show a selection of possible analytic tools today

I wish I could show lots more, but there won't be enough time.