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NSF-Funded "Dark Web" to Battle Terrorists
BuzzSkyline writes "The National Science Foundation has announced a new University of Arizona project, which they call the Dark Web, intended to monitor all terrorist activity on the Internet. The project relies on 'advanced techniques such as Web spidering, link analysis, content analysis, authorship analysis, sentiment analysis and multimedia analysis [to] find, catalog and analyze extremist activities online.' The coolest part of the project is a tool called Writeprint, which 'automatically extracts thousands of multilingual, structural, and semantic features to determine who is creating "anonymous" content' with an accuracy of 95%, according to the release."
Man, I bet the British would have loved to have such a tool when they were occupying Ireland and Scotland. All those filthy Scottish and Irish terrorists would have been no trouble at all.
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I'm sure your neighbor will think so.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Attention, NSF: Here's a better, cheaper solution - point all those @#$@#$%ing existing VIAGRA and mortgage spambots out there at these forums you're monitoring.
Either the terra'rists give up after the spamming, or they kill the spammers. Either way, we win.
...that the Bush administration's definition of 'terrorist' includes Democrats, pot smokers, vegetarians, and people with two arms and two legs.
Of course, when you register to DarkWeb, you give your identity. Obviously, 5% of registered people didn't enter their real identity.
Now, the biggest problem is to get terrorists to register to and use that DarkWeb thingy. But with such a kewl name and a good advertising campaign, it shouldn't be too hard.
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
I call the FBI about all of my neighbors, just in case. I recommend you do the same.
It's better to be safe than sorry; why, just the other day, I saw some guy walking suspiciously down the street. I'm not one to overreact, but this guy was just suspicious if you know what I mean. He looked like he came from the Middle East, had shifty eyes, the full shebang.
So I'm walking along and I see this guy. I almost kept going, minding my own business, but I thought about the danger this proud nation is in and I thought to myself, "If I don't do something, who will?"
And thank god I did.
I called 911 (blessed may that number always be in our hearts) and reported the likely perpetrator. I tailed him from a distance for a while, and my if he wasn't surprised when that officer pulled over next to him! You should have seen the look in his eyes, caught in the act!
So, long story short, turns out the police couldn't arrest him for anything (or he got off on some technicality, probably). I know one thing: he'll be more careful next time he decides to pull something. You've got me to thank for that.
Oh, awesome... thanks for making sure he'll be more careful at his nefarious deeds. You've done us all proud there, Scooter.
SIG: HUP
Yeah, and I'm a hot 17 year old busty woman looking for a good time.
"The project relies on 'advanced techniques such as Web spidering, link analysis, content analysis, authorship analysis, sentiment analysis and multimedia analysis [to] find, catalog and analyze extremist activities online."
Reminds me of something..."I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do NOT wanna fuck with me. Check it out!...Independently targeting particle beam phalanx, VWAP! Fry half a city with this puppy! We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs! We got sonic, electronic ball-breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks..."
Am I the only person to google map this address? There is no 1209 Mayburn St in Dallas.
However, I did find the following address:
1209 N Mayburn St
Dearborn, MI 48128
Okay, its official. I'm a dork.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
...And the locals would have welcomed the British with open arms...
And I am smart. I was also interested but I am lazy. I knew that there would be a /. poster who would look it up. Thanks a bunch. Have a cookie.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Place and time: somewhere in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The phone rings at KGB headquarters.
"Hello?"
"My neighbor Ivan Asimov is an enemy of the State. He is hiding undeclared diamonds in his woodshed."
"This will be noted."
The next day, the KGB goons go over to Asimov's house. They search the shed where the firewood is
kept, break every piece of wood, find no diamonds, swear at Asimov, and leave.
The phone rings at Asimov's house.
"Hello, Ivan! Did the KGB come?"
"Yes."
"Did they chop your firewood?"
"Yes, they did."
"Okay, now it's your turn to call. I need my vegetable patch plowed."
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?