insideouts creative writing passage on the topic:

perhaps one best way to gather empirical data would be for a person who has first hand knowledge of it, as on of us, to simply observe our own writings over time, which is exactly what the government and countless others do to our discussion board entries daily!
our information is far from safe here on the internet...
it needs an underground forum... and a secure means of communication as live as the internet.
the government already has its own system like this... a separate and highly secure part of the "internet" by which they communicate classified information.
that, is the real weapon. their ability to remain completely elusive and invisible while controlling, influencing, and observing all others....

hypothetically speaking of course.
(and not to be taken seriously)