More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis

mrogers writes "USA Today has a story describing how the NSA looks for suspicious calling patterns in the huge volumes of traffic data it collects. "Templates" such as a call from overseas followed by a flurry of domestic calls are used to identify leads, which are forwarded to the FBI for investigation. There have been complaints that low-quality leads are drawing agents away from other cases, and similar pattern-matching approaches have been found wanting in the past. Can data mining identify terrorists?"

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Re:It's possible according to Yahoo

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You post a vacuous comment, starting a vacuous thread, in a large fraction of stories, every time posting that URL that isn't in a signature so that people who have signatures disabled, such as myself, get spammed with it nonetheless.

It annoys me. What is it you want to achieve?