Re: IRC spying to increase

[xploitable <xploitable () gmail com>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:21:38 -0500 (CDT), Ron DuFresne
<dufresne () winternet com> 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
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>
> OK, so you're a Ph.D.  Just don't touch anything.
>
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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. :-)


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