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2008-06-07 Science & Technology

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Posted by Free Radical 2008-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 May explain why TOWERS have been targeted for etrror strikes lately.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-07 00:52|| 2008-06-07 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 May explain why TOWERS have been targeted for Terror strikes lately???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-07 00:52|| 2008-06-07 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Most of us go to work, to school and back home in surprisingly predictable patterns

Which is why individuals who are potential targets for kidnapping or attack are advised/trained to vary their routes and habits, among other things.

Where there are anomalies there quite possibly are jihadi networks ....

or anarchists. Network science might be useful for the next WTO meeting, or at a command center during a riot (like L.A. in '92).

Posted by Pappy 2008-06-07 00:55|| 2008-06-07 00:55|| Front Page Top

#4 There are many law enforcement applications for this which will get civil libertarians and Libertarians worked up.

As networked everything proliferates then the concept of privacy and anonymity will disappear.

The best analogy I can think of is, you can stop your friends and neighbours knowing how much money you make, but you don't have that option with the government.

And in case anyone thinks I am agin this. I am completely in favour. Its effect on law enforcement will be as big as DNA.

Before the Burg, I used to comment and submit occasional pieces at Samizdata and this was my favourite topic.

Posted by phil_b 2008-06-07 02:39|| 2008-06-07 02:39|| Front Page Top

#5 I am pretty random... I would not want to predict me...

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-07 03:03|| 2008-06-07 03:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Hell wit it. Ima take the short path to work. My homies are looking for me every morning. There are things worser than the odd jihadi.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-06-07 03:20|| 2008-06-07 03:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, the DOD can profile my habits as long as it wishes, as long as it doess't watch me masturbate.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-06-07 08:37|| 2008-06-07 08:37|| Front Page Top

#8 And, lotp, these kind of network studies are why the infamous phone call traffic data that was provided by the phone companies to NSA (or whichever alphabet agency was doing the work) was so important. So important that our enemies had to make sure it was stopped. Even though I am a libertarian I had no problem with that kind of data mining - it was all about patterns and networks, not individuals - individuals would come later, for cause.

Posted by Glenmore 2008-06-07 09:52|| 2008-06-07 09:52|| Front Page Top

#9 I spoke with a cop-friend some years ago at the scene of an accident, he said "There were no witnesses, so we are going to be in the same spot tomorrow at the same time" I asked why?

He said "You'd be surprised how many people are in the same place at the same time every day, such as going to work, school or shopping, tomorrow we'll ask folks if they saw this accident, and probably turn up a witness or two".

Sure enough, going to work the next day I passed him, he waved me on by.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-06-07 15:06|| 2008-06-07 15:06|| Front Page Top

#10 I spoke with a cop-friend some years ago at the scene of an accident, he said "There were no witnesses, so we are going to be in the same spot tomorrow at the same time" I asked why?

He said "You'd be surprised how many people are in the same place at the same time every day, such as going to work, school or shopping, tomorrow we'll ask folks if they saw this accident, and probably turn up a witness or two".

Sure enough, going to work the next day I passed him, he waved me on by.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-06-07 15:09|| 2008-06-07 15:09|| Front Page Top

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