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."

Comments

Who's the extremist on-line?

[enrevanche]

This is something the National Science Foundation and University should be ashamed of. This will used to spy on Americans (and others) and will have little to do with terrorism. I'm sure it will be salable to many corporations as well.

These jerks are the "extremists on line".

Re:5%

[Prof.Phreak]

So when they get it wrong, and the police storm my front door instead of my neighbors, will it still be "cool"?

Your lucky neighbor might think so!