Spook Words

September 25, 2003 3:49 AM

Need more hits? Try adding some of these 'spook words' to your meta tags if you'd like more traffic from your friends at the NSA. first link via Reality Carnival
posted by moonbird (22 comments total)

Weekly World News???

How about "Michael Moore"?
posted by planetkyoto at 4:06 AM on September 25, 2003

Nice
posted by Eirixon at 5:13 AM on September 25, 2003

15kg? Why is that a spook word? My cats weigh 15kg together. Oops, is the NSA gonna come and get my cats?
posted by dabitch at 5:18 AM on September 25, 2003

Ronco? Armani? sweeping? basement? garbage? market? beef?

So when i'm sweeping the garbage out of the basement in my Armani, before i go to the market for beef, which i will prepare with a Ronco vegematic, i'm doing spy stuff? cool!
posted by amberglow at 5:43 AM on September 25, 2003

I note th*t the first four letters of the *lph**et *re 'spook wor*s'. I will m*ke spe*i*l efforts to ex*lu*e them from *ll my writings from now on.
posted by Slithy_Tove at 6:13 AM on September 25, 2003

As everyone knows, only drug dealers and terrorists use the metric system.
posted by cameldrv at 6:38 AM on September 25, 2003

15kg is a weight of welding wire. Why that's worthy of notice by the NSA, I'm not sure.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 9:03 AM on September 25, 2003

Perhaps if we ignore the government it and it's little creations (like the NSA, FBI, SS) will go away...

And come election time remember, don't vote, it only encourages 'em!
posted by LowDog at 9:17 AM on September 25, 2003

Bubba the Love Sponge?
posted by briank at 9:21 AM on September 25, 2003

Um. Not to slam, but aren't spook words old news to anyone who's been on the internet longer than Bush has been president? Why the post now? Just curious.
posted by jammer at 9:21 AM on September 25, 2003

15kg is widely considered to be the minimum amount of material for a decent nuclear bomb. Too little material will result in in dirty-bomb type explosions without the full process of a true nuclear detonation taking place. This being much less useful for someone wanted to cause extreme damage and/or radioactive contamination.
posted by bargle at 9:32 AM on September 25, 2003

I wanted to post a link to an article here, but I could not find the thing... thought I had it bookmarked. At any rate, it discussed how 5kg of plutonium + 15kg of enriched uranium would allow a terrorist to create a bomb roughly equal to the two dropped on Japan by the United States.
posted by bargle at 9:40 AM on September 25, 2003

Bubba the Love Sponge
posted by GeekAnimator at 10:09 AM on September 25, 2003

Hi! I am a nerd who lives in Chelsea. I wear sneakers. I like beef. I visited the White House in eighth grade. Shout-out to my Chicago Posse!

...I'm expecting a knock any day now. : )
posted by SisterHavana at 10:21 AM on September 25, 2003

so, is bush dead yet?
posted by quonsar at 10:53 AM on September 25, 2003

So when i'm sweeping the garbage out of the basement in my Armani

this translates that you are using counter-surveillance equipment to look for a Cheap Italian listening device in premises.

before i go to the market for beef, which i will prepare with a Ronco vegematic,

this means before leaving the scene, you replace the bug with a similar bug (only better) to fool Italian spies.
:)
posted by clavdivs at 11:19 AM on September 25, 2003

Speculating on whether Waihopai is Echelon gets the attention of Echelon users. Fascinating!
posted by ~rschram at 12:41 PM on September 25, 2003

Are fissionable and quiche two separate items in the list, or are they looking for fissionable quiche?
posted by gimonca at 1:09 PM on September 25, 2003

fissionable quiche is a band name waiting to happen... anyone?

I've heard of spook words used as signature files in email, but not quite so much in meta tags, which is actually a big 'duh' for me. Nevertheless, I found these lists as fascinating as they seem silly.

Does anyone really have any hard evidence that Echelon tracks websites/email?
posted by moonbird at 1:27 PM on September 25, 2003

Yes, I have hard evidence here: < -post deleted->
posted by iamck at 3:41 PM on September 25, 2003

So when i'm sweeping the garbage out of the basement in my Armani...
this translates that you are using counter-surveillance equipment to look for a Cheap Italian listening device in premises...

who knew? I must be a better spy than i thought : >
posted by amberglow at 5:33 PM on September 25, 2003

Are meta tags still used? My understanding is that search engines stopped taking much notice of keywords in meta tags a long time ago and I would assume that any half-way intelligent spy agency would be working on basically the same technology.
posted by dg at 12:04 AM on September 26, 2003