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More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bet-some-smart-guys-work-there dept.

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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  1. World Cup by CaymanIslandCarpedie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "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.

    Good thing soccer (you know, the other football)isn't more popular in the states. Can you imagine the number of suspected terrorists that would be found this summer during the World Cup. I don't even know if there is a color available on the Homeland Security color chart to signify that level of terrorist activity!

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    "reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Steven Colbert
  2. Re:It's possible according to Yahoo by ezzzD55J · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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?