/. [More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis]

[Eugen Leitl]

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/1321208
Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2006-05-31 15:08:00

   mrogers writes "USA Today has a story describing how the NSA looks for
   [1]suspicious calling patterns in the [2]huge volumes of traffic data
   it [3]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 [4]found wanting in the
   past. Can data mining identify terrorists?"

References

   1. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-22-nsa-template_x.htm
   2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/politics/24spy.html?ex=1293080400&en=016edb
46b79bde83&ei=5090
   3. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70908-0.html?tw=rss.technology
   4. http://www-tech.mit.edu/V122/N48/48secure.48n.html

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