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Re:I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds” in a Venmo memo and the feds de... by paublyrne on Monday April 18, 2016 @04:25PM (#11522920)
Let's hope that real ISIS supporters are thoughtless enough to include the word ISIS in their communications.
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Re:I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds” in a Venmo memo and the feds de... by jpalomaki on Monday April 18, 2016 @04:48PM (#11523045)
Probably this is at CYA ("Cover Your Ass") security [1] in action. Everybody knows these terms are not very useful on these lists, but also want to make sure they don't end up having to explain why all other names were listed, but the something as obvious as this was left out.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/cya_security_...

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