Joel Johnson found that the Department of Homeland Security's list of Facebook and Twitter search terms was not in an easily-available public format, "curiously embedded as an image of text" in a PDF to prevent indexing. He fixed it. [Animal]
The tweets that homeland security spooks look for
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