Your Tax Dollars At Work — Leetspeak

FBI, glossary, leetspeak, slang, Technology
It’s fascinating to see what our government agencies are doing with some of our hard earned tax dollars. In this head-scratching example, the FBI — the FBI’s Intelligence Research Support Unit, no less — has just completed a 83-page glossary of Internet slang or “leetspeak”. LOL and Ugh! (the latter is not an acronym). Check out the document via Muckrock here — they obtained the “secret” document through the Freedom of Information Act. From the Washington Post: The Internet is full of strange and bewildering neologisms, which anyone but a text-addled teen would struggle to understand. So the fine, taxpayer-funded people of the FBI — apparently not content to trawl Urban Dictionary, like the rest of us — compiled a glossary of Internet slang. An 83-page glossary. Containing nearly 3,000…
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