Re: Surveilling statistical 'Samas

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 7/11/06, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
<rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> Amidst all the furor over surveillance, legalities, and political machinations, I have
> failed to be impressed by any indication that wiretapping and so forth was catching
> terrorists.  Now there is an indication as to why this is the case:

<SNIP>
> "As an exercise to the reader, you can use the same analysis to show that data
> mining is an excellent tool for finding stolen credit cards, or stolen cell phones.
> Data mining is by no means useless; it's just useless for this particular application."

They haven't admitted to doing it in the first place so its pretty
interesting/funny to read people blubbering about its supposed
purpose.

Its more likely that they are using it to find terrorists "after the
fact" - where they're watching a suspect and mining for any calls he
makes or his circle of friends make etc. Far less resource intensive
to search the logs of this data than trying to filter a pipe, live.
I'll even go out on the ledge and suggest that it might be this work
that led to the big arrest in Canada a little while ago and the
immediate knowledge of their contacts in the US.
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