Be afraid, be very afraid. More and more people turn away from the mainstream news sources and prefer to find their News online. The sources? Blogs and websites of people like me who spend time trawling and researching. “Terrorists” are not ton the habit of advertising their attacks on websites. Try googling terrorist websites other than some Arab sites showing insurgency actions and extremist propaganda. Everybody knows that the use of keywords attracts big brother. So who will they investigate. Well, let me give you a hint.
Rob Gilchrist anyone?
The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the Internet to plan bombings, recruit members and spread propaganda. “Blogging and message boards have played a substantial role in allowing communication among those who would do the United States harm,” the department said in a recent notice.
Homeland Security officials are looking for companies to search the Internet for postings “in near to real-time which precede” an attack, particularly a bombing. Bombings are “of great concern” because terrorists can easily get materials and make an improvised-explosive device (IED), the department said.
“There is a lot of IED information generated by terrorists everywhere — websites, forums, people telling you where to buy fertilizer and how to plant IEDs,” said Hsinchun Chen, director of the University of Arizona’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Chen’s “Dark Web” research project has found 500,000,000 terrorist pages and postings, including tens of thousands that discuss IEDs.
Chen and others aren’t sure how helpful blogs and message boards will be in uncovering planned attacks.
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Tags: Alternative news, Political activism, Spying
28/06/2009 at 3:27 am |
The real reason is database population. AI requires exemplars, they need to fish for these first, then they can build Big Brother.