Fighting Terrorists Through Software, Anonymously?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday March 17, 2004 @10:38PM from the i'm-not-who-you-think-i-am dept.

Silwenae writes "MSNBC has a story online from this week's Newsweek about Jeff Jonas, founder of System Research and Development. SRD's software attempts to verify a person is who he says he is, and then tries to determine who that person may be connected with. Originally used in casinos, the CIA has invested in SRD for use in the war against terrorism. Apparently, Jonas has developed a system that can anonymize the data being analyzed through hashing, so the government can share this information with the private sector to look for hits, without the private sector seeing the specific data."

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detector by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2004-03-17 22:46 · Score: 5, Funny

then tries to determine who that person may be connected with.

Does this software detect siamese twins?

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1. Re:detector by kfg · 2004-03-17 23:32 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Does this software detect siamese twins?
  
  No. It detects Kevin Bacon.
  
  KFG