Narus Develops Social Media Sleuth

maximus1 writes "Narus is developing a new technology code-named Hone that can be used to identify anonymous users of social networks and Internet services. Hone can do some pretty 'scary' things, says Antonio Nucci, chief technology officer with Narus. Hone uses artificial intelligence to analyze e-mails and can link mails to different accounts, doing what Nucci calls topical analysis. 'It's going to go through a set of documents and automatically it's going to organize them in topics — I'm not talking about keywords as is done today, I'm talking about topics,' he said. That can't be done with today's technology, he said. 'If you search for fertilizers on Google ... it's going to come back with 6.5 million pages. Enjoy,' he said. 'If you want to search for non-farmers who are discussing fertilizer ... it's not even searchable.' Nucci will discuss Hone at the RSA Conference in San Francisco Friday."

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Re:scare tactics

[Cryacin]

most terrorists are well educated people from well to do backgrounds

You know what's interesting about that statement? It's the same in the west.

Q. What types generally join the whole GreenPeace/Anti Capitalism/Freiheit fuer alle! terrorism/anti-establishment groups in the west?

A. Generally rich little brats, who have had the silver spoon thrust so deep down their throats that they don't really know what it's like to live in the real world, or to make a buck, but rather feel guilty that they happened to win on the birth lottery.

I bet you that you can find similar trends in behaviour in groups like the aforementioned, plus PETA et al, stopping short only when it's about blowing yourself up.

Suicide bombing is only a few brain washing sessions more than our "rebels" right now. A good education, PLUS the removal of this insane guilt that society feels when we are successful is what needs to be looked at to help against recruiting the next suicide bombers.

That and bankrupting terrorist groups, which seems to be working quite well.