[astangl]

With all the talk of spying and monitoring citizens' whereabouts via license plate scans -- can anybody setup a camera to take snapshots of license plates of cars entering & leaving NSA & other such installations, and cross-reference these against license records?

[s_q_b]

A few years ago at Defcon someone rigged up a Twitter scraper, and found all the tweets that geolocated to the massive NSA headquarters parking lot. That said, it's not clear to me that it's legal to actively attempt to "out" NSA employees.

[paulyg]

Regardless of its legality, I'm sure the spooks would find an excuse to come shake you down.

[brown9-2]

I think most of the time you would want some sort of official response to an attempt to systematically catalog the employees of your nation's clandestine intelligence agencies.

[s_q_b]

I don't dabble in anything illegal, and I don't scare easily, so they wouldn't really have anything to hold over me. But yeah, I can definitely see that going that route would invite some unwanted attention. It's probably one of the reasons we haven't seen a mass effort to dox the 50k or so NSA employees.

[rbellio]

I tried finding more about the Twitter scraper, but didn't find anything. Could you provide a link? I think I'd get a good chuckle from it.

[computer]

https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232476/Who_is_tweet...

[s_q_b]

Thanks! Also, this seems as good a time as any to bring up Maltego. It's an OSINT network analysis tool that is as good as anything I know about in civilian law enforcement. You get some really cool results when plugging in Twitter data.

http://www.paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php

[rbellio]

I looked into the tool and realized I'd seen my Information Assurance roommate use it 5+ years ago. It was a great application then, but has become even better since. I played around with it for a couple hours yesterday, lots of fun.