On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:21:38 -0500 (CDT), Ron DuFresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > October 11, Associated Press - U.S. funds chat-room surveillance study. > The > U.S. government is funding a yearlong study on chat room surveillance > under > an anti-terrorism program. A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute computer > science professor hopes to develop mathematical models that can uncover > structure within the scattershot traffic of online public forums. > Professor > Bulent Yener will use mathematical models in search of patterns in the > chatter. Downloading data from selected chat rooms, Yener will track the > times that messages were sent, creating a statistical profile of the > traffic. "For us, the challenge is to be able to determine, without > reading > the messages, who is talking to whom," Yener said. The $157,673 grant > comes > from the National Science Foundation's Approaches to Combat Terrorism > program. It was selected in coordination with the nation's intelligence > agencies. Source: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25272-2004Oct11.html > > Thanks, > > Ron DuFresne > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It > eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the > business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart > ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** > > OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html >
A waste of money. They won't find anything...... people are too smart to use chatrooms to discuss elite stuff. Another reason to vote Bush out. :-) -- visit http://www.geocities.com/n3td3v _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
