[liberationtech] data mine the snowden files [was: open the snowden files]

[grarpamp]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:11 PM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Griffin Boyce <griffin at cryptolab.net> wrote:
>> One approach is to take the existing public data, make some assumptions
>> (educated guesses) and do additional research on top of that. It's what I'm
>> doing right now. It's also what led to the original cointelpro revelations.
>> Before the follow-up research, it was a meaningless acronym.
>>
>> Find, extrapolate, expand.
>
> this is the type of effort i was hoping to see undertaken.
>
> when you say "additional research", is this organic or structured?
> tool assisted or old skewl?
>
> i too have been building up some terms and technologies, but yet to
> put it into any structured format with context, as part of my post is
> to see how others are handling the vast complexity and extensive
> compartmentalization embodied in the leaks to date.
>
> i also would like to pursue this research anonymously, on hidden
> services rather than public sites or email.

To do any of this you will need to collect all the releases of docs
and images to date, in their original format (not AP newsspeak),
in one place. Then dedicate much time to normalizing, convert to
one format and import into tagged document store, etc. Yes, this
could be hosted on the darknet.