Is John Ashcroft with you in that chat room?

National Science Foundation’s Approaches to Combat Terrorism has award over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the development of automated analysis of internet chat room activity. The stated goal is to spot al-Qaida and other terrorists chatting online.

But if you develop technology to ferret out one pattern you can put it to scanning for others. And the best software in the world will be deaf to nuances. Who knows you may find themselves innocently caught in a tangle of government surveillance.

Chat rooms are the highly popular and freewheeling areas on the Internet where people with self-created nicknames discuss just about anything: teachers, Kafka, cute boys, politics, love, root canal. They are also places where malicious hackers have been known to trade software tools, stolen passwords and credit card numbers. The Pew Internet & American Life Project estimates that 28 million Americans have visited Internet chat rooms.

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Originally posted 2004-10-12 15:12:10. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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