By Dylan Love
This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the NSA to flag you as a potential terrorist if you over-use them in an email.
We found this on Reddit, where James Bamford, a veteran reporter with 30 years experience covering the NSA, is answering questions from the community. This list comes from Reddit user GloriousDawn, who found it on Attrition.org, a site that very closely follows the security industry.
You may want to peruse this entire list yourself, but here are some of our favourites that stick out:
dictionary
sweeping
ionosphere
military intelligence
Steve Case
Scully
And the full list for your browsing pleasure:
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