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DON'T WHISPER A WORD OF THIS TO ANYONE!    ;^)
Source: <http://www.infiltrated.net/orkut.php>
Author: sil [at] infiltrated [dot] net  

        If for some reason you cannot access 
        some of the URL's mentioned on this text, 
        use a proxy: 
        <http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html>

Who is friends with Orkut? 
<http://www.datawhorehouse.com/orkut/mapme.php?id=orkut+BUYUKKOKTEN> 

Let's have a look. By the way if you see your name in there, click on it why not! Fun 
for the whole planet!  

Is Orkut part of some spook program? Who knows but I won't be using it any longer. 
Besides, being guilty by associating with terrorist, and or their networks is 
definitely not my forte. I don't mind being watched by government agencies like the 
CIA, FBI, NSA, really I don't, because it's inevitable to some extent. I shouldn't 
have to PGP sign a message to my wife if I want to have e-sex with her, I shouldn't 
have to PGP sign my messages to friends when I express my gripes about the government, 
I do so all the time on Politrix <http://www.politrix.org>. What I do mind, is being 
part of some kooky experiment. I wondered why after changing my name to a nick was I 
'jailed' and told to place it back so often. I emailed the contacts at Orkut to no 
avail. Seems like they're bent on having one's information. Sort of silly considering 
I could have used a proxy to register account after account and become lost in a 
myriad of Onion routing proxies. Again, I just don't like the fact someone somewhere 
is doing something rather odd. You make what you want out of it.

There are a lot of cool people I've happened to meet, and I've run into some people I 
haven't spoken to in a while, but unfortunately until I see some form of "This is what 
Orkut is..." coming out, I won't use it. I don't care to partake in any form of study 
without my consent. What is the study going to be used for, who is using it. The 
problem I can foresee is, supposing some agency wanted to start targeting a political 
campaign towards me, or flooding the airwaves with what they might think I want to 
hear. I didn't ask for that, it's deceitful, and I should have the right to know what 
it is - if it is some form of study - that I'm participating in. I should have the 
right to decide if I want to be in it, and sure "if you don't like it then you don't 
have to use it asshole" then I won't.

For those who think "hey this is just coincidental", or "you're crazy they would never 
do that", I suggest you read what the government has done in those clinical trials of 
"We'll pay you to try this pharmaceutical product for reasearch. It's to cure stomach 
ailments." only to find out 20 years later the government was giving students 
hallucinogenics. Think it's crazy? Look it up on HREX <http://hrex.dis.anl.gov/> { 
"This site is no longer available due to lack of funding." -- they say. Try this: 
<http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/>} aka Human Radiation Experiments, released via FOIA. 
Hey, that's directly from a government website, don't take my word for it go see for 
yourself. Then go on to read about how America's homeless are about to be branded like 
animals <http://politechbot.com/pipermail/politech/2004-April/000573.html>, and maybe 
you'll have a change of heart about your privacy, freedom and rights.

Again, this has nothing to do with some 'conspiracy the government is going to lock me 
up' its simply a matter of questioning the exact purpose of Orkut'sdata mining. 
Doesn't the government (if they're behind Orkut.com) have enough using companies like 
Choicepoint <http://www.choicepoint.com> which boasts of having 12 billion records of 
Americans, everything down from where you lived for the past who knows how long, to 
what size underwear your wearing? I already ready know that Mr. John Asscroft has a 
problem with privacy 
<http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=225624&category=OPINION&newsdate=3/5/2004>,
 so I'm sure he doesn't mind having his entire life 
<http://cryptome.org/four-eyeballs.htm> - phone number, address and satellite images 
of his house for the world to see. Heck neither should Karl Rove, George Tenet nor 
Valerie Plame. <http://cryptome.org/four-eyeballs.htm> As for me, I would like the 
CHOICE of opting to do something, not unwillingly participate in something which can 
possibly harm me.

As for Orkut, I suggest you ask Mr.BUYUKKOKTEN of Google about it, and why the heck it 
coincidentally is coming up alongside know CIA fronts and proxy companies, being he's 
written about social networks so much, maybe he can give you a better answer. Heck, 
I'd gladly welcome an 'explanation' of what Orkut is, and why he decided to host it oh 
so far away, and how it just oh so happens to run along the lines of the CIA, and NSA 
like fronts. As for me, it just spooks me out so I choose not to use it any longer, 
bottom line. Besides Cogent Communications has been linked to terrorists in the past, 
and I for one know I don't want to be associated with them.

According to the Orkut website, this is what Orkut is: "orkut.com is an online 
community website designed for friends. The main goal of our service is to make your 
social life, and that of your friends, more active and stimulating. orkut's social 
network can help you both maintain existing relationships as well as establish new 
ones by reaching out to people you've never met before. Who you interact with is 
entirely up to you. Before getting to know an orkut member, you can even see how 
they're connecting to you through the friends network." Now I wonder, aside from being 
invited, can anyone state who invited them and trace it back to the first user. 
Obviously it had to be the first persons on the service since it's an invite only 
service. This would mean Orkut himself invited you somewhere along the line. "orkut is 
unique, because it's an organically growing network of trusted friends. That way we 
won't grow too large, too quickly and everyone will have at least one person to vouch 
for them. If you know someone who is a member of orkut, that person can invite you to 
join as well. If you don't know an orkut member, wait a bit and most likely you soon 
will." Seems really fishy. "That way we won't grow too large, too quickly and everyone 
will have at least one person to vouch for them." Who's vouching for Mr. Orkut I 
certainly don't know him, so why should I trust him, ever hear of the term guilty by 
association?

To be fair about it, I decided to check out Cogent Communication's services for 
myself. Basic plan:

* Rack Pack 2 - 2 Mbps + Full Rack for $1,000
* Rack Pack 100 - 100 Mbps + Full Rack for $3,000

So Orkut is just gracious enough to spend 12,000 a year for basic hosting? 12k is the 
lowball figure, after checking his Alexa stats 
<http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=orkut.com>, I'm guessing it's more like 3-4k 
maybe even more for Orkut, without one banner, one "click to support us", or anything 
else to make revenue. Pretty nice guy. He sure is a nice guy, and he has some pretty 
high powered lawyers too <http://www.infiltrated.net/orkut.pdf>, which makes this a 
bit stranger being Google has their own in house lawyers 
<http://www.infiltrated.net/google.pdf>. So now I hear the trolls: "But he's partnered 
with Google! I can add a search engine feature to my sites and call it partnering with 
Google, it means nothing. So who is paying for this? If it is Google, why not have it 
in their co-location facilities, I'm sure they'd be able to handle the traffic. Why 
not give their employee and his pet project access to their in house lawyers?

Sadly I could find no mention of anyone paying for this, not Google, not Mr. Orkut, no 
one and believe me I'm resourceful at digging up information. I did find the following 
quote which offered a glimpse at, nothing fruitful: "Still, Google owns the technology 
developed by its employees, Rodriguez said" from the CNET article "Google spawns 
social networking service <http://news.com.com/2100-1026-5146006.html?tag=cd_top>", 
which then states: "Google spokeswoman Eileen Rodriguez said that despite Orkut's 
affiliation, the service is not part of Google's product portfolio at this time. 
"We're always looking at opportunities to expand our search products, but we currently 
have no plans in the social networking market."

There is mention of the 'Friendster' purchase, but no mention of any money being given 
for Orkut. Someone is paying for this, I doubt Cogent Communications would offer the 
service out of their kind generosity. Whoever is doing it, is definitely dishing out 
some money. Google is the type to do so, but why if they have not divulge some bit of 
information on this, answer some simple questions. I know if I had money invested in 
some machines with the type of information I could mine from a service like Orkut, I 
would keep my machines near me, physically. If they went down, I'd want to be able to 
take a look, not fly to the other side of the country to see what's wrong.

Registrant: BUYUKKOKTEN, ORKUT (UHGFNCTSOD)
   2400 W El Camino Real, Apt 419
   MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040-1680
   US

   Domain Name: ORKUT.COM

Administrative Contact:
      BUYUKKOKTEN, ORKUT  (OBD36)               
      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
      2400 W El Camino Real, Apt 419
      MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040-1680
      US
      650 888 5822 fax: 123 123 1234

Technical Contact:
      Network Solutions, LLC.  (HOST-ORG)
      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
      13200 Woodland Park Drive
      Herndon, VA 20171-3025
      US
      1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620

   Record expires on 08-Dec-2006.
   Record created on 08-Dec-2002.
   Database last updated on 28-Mar-2004 14:09:43 EST.

   Domain servers in listed order:

NS11.WORLDNIC.COM            216.168.225.141
NS12.WORLDNIC.COM            216.168.225.142

Who is ORKUT BUYUKKOKTEN? -- A computer science doctoral candidate at Stanford 
University and user interface design engineer for Google.

---

A social network caught in the Web Lada A. Adamic and Eytan Adar
HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA

Orkut Buyukkokten
Google, Mountain View, CA 

Abstract

We present an analysis of Club Nexus, an online community at Stanford University. 
Through the Nexus site we were able to study a reflection of the real world community 
structure within the student body. We observed and measured social network phenomena 
such as the small world effect, clustering, and the strength of weak ties. Using the 
rich profile data provided by the users we were able to deduce the attributes 
contributing to the formation of friendships, and to determine how the similarity of 
users decays as the distance between them in the network increases. In addition, we 
found correlations between a user's personality and their other attributes, as well as 
interesting correspondences between how users perceive themselves and how they are 
perceived by others.

<http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_6/adamic/>

---

He seems to be quoted in "Organizing Literature Information for Clinical Decision 
Support" In the article "Patents: Idea for Online Networking Brings Two Entrepreneurs 
Together" Ironically Orkut is mentioned along with Tribe, Friendster, and In-Q-Tel. 
In-Q-Tel is already know to be a CIA capital venture firm. Sort of irrelevant to a 
point. So where does Orkut reside if Mr. Buyukkokten is in California, I'm sure he 
would like to have some form of control over a machine when it goes down or needs some 
hardware changes or updates. So let's have a peek shall we?  

# nslookup orkut.com

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    orkut.com
Address:  66.28.250.19

There you are... 

# nslookup google.com

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    google.com
Addresses:  216.239.39.99, 216.239.57.99, 216.239.37.99

Google is on their own network. Strange, you would figure Mr. Orkut would keep his 
machines close. After all he is an engineer at Google, and I'm sure being partnered 
with Google would provide him with an abundance of bandwith. However where do Orkut's 
servers reside?  

Registrant:
        Google Inc. (DOM-258879)
        2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US

    Domain Name: google.com

        Registrar Name: Alldomains.com
        Registrar Whois: whois.alldomains.com
        Registrar Homepage: http://www.alldomains.com

    Administrative Contact:
        DNS Admin (NIC-1340142)  Google Inc.
        2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506181499
    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
        DNS Admin (NIC-1340144)  Google Inc.
        2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506181499

    Created on..............: 1997-Sep-15.
    Expires on..............: 2011-Sep-14.
    Record last updated on..: 2003-Apr-07 10:42:46.

    Domain servers in listed order:

    NS3.GOOGLE.COM              216.239.36.10
    NS4.GOOGLE.COM              216.239.38.10
    NS1.GOOGLE.COM              216.239.32.10
    NS2.GOOGLE.COM              216.239.34.10

# whois -h whois.arin.net 66.28.250.19

OrgName:    Cogent Communications
OrgID:      COGC
Address:    1015 31st Street, NW
City:       Washington
StateProv:  DC
PostalCode: 20007
Country:    US

ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.cogentco.com:4321/

NetRange:   66.28.0.0 - 66.28.255.255
CIDR:       66.28.0.0/16
NetName:    COGENT-NB-0000
NetHandle:  NET-66-28-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-66-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: AUTH1.DNS.COGENTCO.COM
NameServer: AUTH2.DNS.COGENTCO.COM
Comment:    ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
Comment:    Reassignment information for this block can be found at
Comment:    rwhois.cogentco.com 4321
RegDate:    2000-10-12
Updated:    2001-12-05

TechHandle: ZC108-ARIN
TechName:   Cogent Communications
TechPhone:  +1-877-875-4311
TechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OrgAbuseHandle: COGEN-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Cogent Abuse
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-877-875-4311
OrgAbuseEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OrgNOCHandle: ZC108-ARIN
OrgNOCName:   Cogent Communications
OrgNOCPhone:  +1-877-875-4311
OrgNOCEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OrgTechHandle: IPALL-ARIN
OrgTechName:   IP Allocation
OrgTechPhone:  +1-877-875-4311
OrgTechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-03-27 19:15
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.

Good old Cogentco. What are the odds? 

# nslookup metacarta.com

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    metacarta.com
Address:  66.28.23.141

Spooks turn to hi-tech geography

Imagine being able to pinpoint someone's location anywhere in the world simply by 
typing a few keywords on your PC. Software allows spooks to pinpoint specific 
locations. That is what software partly funded by the US military is trying to do. The 
MetaCarta program works by analysing thousands of documents and cross-checking the 
results with a massive geographical database. So far it has largely been used by US 
intelligence agencies to analyse the huge amount of information collected as part of 
the war on terror." (BBC News <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3430987.stm>)  

MetaCarta, a company based in Boston, uses a text search algorithm that retrieves 
content based on geographic keywords. Its flagship product, the Geographic Text Search 
(GTS), has the ability to confine searches by geography and retrieve information that 
it detects using the keywords, and then displays this information geographically on a 
map interface. In January 2004, MetaCarta picked up $6.5 Million in second round 
funding from Sevin Rosen Funds, one of the premier venture capital firms for the IT 
industry.

The company was founded about three years ago and started with the support of a few 
government agencies, such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and 
from In-Q-Tel, a private fund established by the Central Intelligence Agency. The 
original mission of the company was to create a link between content management 
systems (CMS) and GIS. "What's really interesting is that when you look at the IT 
landscape is how much of it doesn't talk to each other because when people think about 
text documents they don't think of maps, but the stuff they are talking about in the 
text can be interpreted, by a human, as being geographic," says John Frank, founder of 
MetaCarta. "So we wanted to fix this disconnection point by building technology that 
would interpret text, parsed through a textual document, automatically define 
references that the software could translate into actual latitude and longitude 
coordinates. The company calls this "geoparsing." Source: 
<http://www.in-sourced.com/article/articleview/1493/1/1/>

MetaCarta, Inc. -- MetaCarta's groundbreaking technology bridges the gap between 
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and document retrieval. MetaCarta's flagship 
product, MetaCarta Geographic Text Search .(GTS), boosts productivity by reducing the 
number of person-hours involved in searching, sorting, and reading large volumes of 
documents. Source: <http://www.in-sourced.com/article/articleview/1493/1/1/>

AFCEA Intelligence Symposium 2004 <http://www.afcea.org/spring2004/exhibits.asp> 

---

Telecommunications and Spying practices
Spiegel Online of October 24, 2002
article by Frank Patalong 

Mr. Patalong of Spiegel reported that soon after the terrorist attacks on September 
11, 2001, government authorities, especially in America, began to crack down on web 
sites having to do with Islam, Mujahdin and al Qaeda. This was done with such 
thoroughness that Islamic interest groups in the USA protested the closings of 
harmless sites. Some sites, however, seemed to have escaped the dragnet. That includes 
Kavkaz, the primary news source for the Chechen Mujahdin. The site's been in operation 
for two years. The site lists Mavladi Adogov, the "Information Minister of the Chechen 
exile government," as contact, but it may be operated by Movladi Udug. 

(...)

After Chicago, the flow of data to Kavkaz is routed by Cogent Communication, 
headquartered in Washington, and which hosts the Kavkaz pages. Cogent financial 
supporters include the Metacarta and In-Q-Tel companies. Metacarta is headquartered in 
Boston, same as the NSA's New England Electronic Crimes Task Force, and specializes in 
"fingering" (identifying) users and documents. The US intelligence agents have 
customized the Metacarta software a little. They use the technology to track movements 
of individuals. 

It was relatively easy to find where the other money for Metacarta came from. In-Q-Tel 
lists on its home page that it is a private, not-for-profit corporations "financed by 
the CIA."

---

Kavkaz.org Based in the USA (terrorism in the United States) 
<http://english.pravda.ru/world/2002/10/25/38640.html>

Even those who know nothing about web sites have probably heard about the kavkaz.org 
site. In short, this is the official web site of Chechen separatists, a stronghold of 
terrorism on the Internet. 

In the light of the universal struggle with terrorism, it is quite natural to suppose 
that all civilized people in the world would want the terrorist site to be closed. 
However, it still exists. And this happens at the time when the police in the USA and 
Great Britain track visitors of the kiddie porno sites down and put them in jail. 
Specialists can identify the home address of these people using the IP-address only. 

A simple Internet investigation allows one to determine the domain host, the 
IP-addresses of the server supporting the site, and the name and address of the 
provider where the server is located. This takes just several minutes. 

whois kavkaz.org
Domain Name: KAVKAZ.ORG
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL:
Name Server: ATRIVO.BASSINTER.COM
Name Server: ATRIVO2.BASSINTER.COM
Updated Date: 23-feb-2002
Registrant:
Udug, Movladi (KAVKAZ14-DOM)
10 Bird Lane
Orlando, FL 32860
US
Domain Name: KAVKAZ.ORG
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Udug, Movladi (ZWWPQJQEGI) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Udug,Movladi
10 Bird Lane
Orlando, FL 32860
US
+1-9745572730 123 123 1234

The address and telephone number of the domain host are also available. However, more 
interesting things are the following. The server address on the Internet is 
66.28.38.232 

whois -a 66.28.38.232 

OrgName: Cogent Communications
OrgID: COGC
NetRange: 66.28.0.0 - 66.28.255.255
CIDR: 66.28.0.0/16
NetName: COGENT-NB-0000
TechHandle: ZC108-ARIN
TechName: Cogent Communications
TechPhone: +1-877-875-4311
TechEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is the company Cogent Communications, and where is it located? 
whois -a COGC

OrgName: Cogent Communications
OrgID: COGC
Address: 1015 31st Street, NW Washington DC 20007
Country: US
Our investigation revealed that an American company with the legal address in the US 
capital provides the service for terrorists. 

It would take five minutes to close the server down. However, despite numerous 
requests from Internet users and Russian state structures asking for the server to be 
closed, nothing is done. 

>From now on, before taking the USA-s statements on its struggle against terrorism 
>into consideration, remember please who breaks the laws on international terrorism 
>and provides hosting for this terrorist site. 

More on Kavkaz: 

[DOMAIN whois information on KAVKAZCENTER.COM ]
   Registry: VeriSign, Inc. - http://www.verisign-grs.com
   Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
   Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS1.KAVKAZCHAT.COM 66.28.63.241
   Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS2.KAVKAZCHAT.COM 66.28.63.242
   Status: ACTIVE
   Updated Date: 20-apr-2003
   Creation Date: 16-jun-2002
   Expiration Date: 16-jun-2008
[whois.opensrs.net]
Registrant:
 Kavkaz
 Istanbul, Bahcesehir D8/4
 Istanbul, Turkey 34900
 TR

 Domain name: KAVKAZCENTER.COM

 Administrative Contact:
    Tutuyev, Visami  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Istanbul, Bahcesehir D8/4
    Istanbul, Turkey 34900
    TR
    +905552141304
 Technical Contact:
    Tutuyev, Visami  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Istanbul, Bahcesehir D8/4
    Istanbul, Turkey 34900
    TR
    +905552141304

 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
 Record last updated on 01-Mar-2004.
 Record expires on 16-Jun-2008.
 Record created on 16-Jun-2002.

 Domain servers in listed order:
    NS1.KAVKAZCHAT.COM   66.28.63.241
    NS2.KAVKAZCHAT.COM   66.28.63.242

Ironic? Kavkaz and a company tied to the NSA, and spooks sharing not only the same 
subnet, but the same IP address. 66.28.63.241. Maybe someone just wanted to show a bit 
of gratitude here. "Nobody will get out of here alive, and they will die along with us 
if any attempt is made to storm the building," Barayev was quoted as saying by the 
Chechen Web site Kavkaz-Centre." (source NewsMax 
<http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/24/162841.shtml>)

# whois -h whois.arin.net 66.28.63.241

OrgName:    Cogent Communications
OrgID:      COGC
Address:    1015 31st Street, NW
City:       Washington
StateProv:  DC
PostalCode: 20007
Country:    US

ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.cogentco.com:4321/

NetRange:   66.28.0.0 - 66.28.255.255
CIDR:       66.28.0.0/16
NetName:    COGENT-NB-0000
NetHandle:  NET-66-28-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-66-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: AUTH1.DNS.COGENTCO.COM
NameServer: AUTH2.DNS.COGENTCO.COM
Comment:    ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
Comment:    Reassignment information for this block can be found at
Comment:    rwhois.cogentco.com 4321
RegDate:    2000-10-12
Updated:    2001-12-05

TechHandle: ZC108-ARIN
TechName:   Cogent Communications
TechPhone:  +1-877-875-4311
TechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OrgAbuseHandle: COGEN-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Cogent Abuse
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-877-875-4311
OrgAbuseEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OrgNOCHandle: ZC108-ARIN
OrgNOCName:   Cogent Communications
OrgNOCPhone:  +1-877-875-4311
OrgNOCEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OrgTechHandle: IPALL-ARIN
OrgTechName:   IP Allocation
OrgTechPhone:  +1-877-875-4311
OrgTechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

So who else is interested in Social Networks? Big Brother sure is:  

---

SECRECY NEWS 
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy 
Volume 2004, Issue No. 15 February 9, 2004  

* SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND INTELLIGENCE  
* BUSH NAMES ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTELLIGENCE  
* IG: DOJ DID NOT VIOLATE FOIA BY WITHHOLDING DIVERSITY REPORT 
* LEAHY ON PARADE MAGAZINE ON FOIA  
* EISENHOWER: THIS LETTER WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR AUTHORITY  

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND INTELLIGENCE
read more at Federation of American Scientists 
<http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2004/02/020904.html>  

Social Network Analysis for Combating Terrorists Networks  

International terrorist networks have transformed the problems of homeland defense and 
international security by the development of novel tactics facilitated by flexible, 
adaptive cell-based organizational networks. Their use of novel tactics targeting 
civilians in the U.S. and abroad makes understanding and predicting their 
capabilities, targets, and estimating their available resources especially critical.

Defense planners lack sufficient tools for understanding the dynamics of these 
networks, for exposing their vulnerabilities, and thwarting their activities 
holistically and effectively.  Defense planners require a comprehensive understanding 
of these networks in order to create effective strategies to control and contain their 
activities. However, reliable and sufficient information about these networks is 
difficult to come by, often containing missing or erroneous data. Models and analysis 
tools are required for understanding the flows of expertise, funds, information, goods 
and materials. In addition, models and analytical tools are required to understand the 
command and control architectures of terrorist organizations and to develop effective 
strategies for the containment and disruption of terrorist activities.  

Office of Naval Research 
<https://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/personnel/342/hp_terrorist.asp>

---

LinkedIn 

Washingtonians using the system include a slew of techies, including CEOs 
MichaelTessler of BroadSoft in Gaithersburg, Donna Hemmert of Dulles-based OptiView 
and Eric J. Kuhn of Varsity Group in Washington. Also linking in are many local 
venture capitalists and investors, such as John May of New Vantage Group, Tim Meyers 
of Updata Capital, John Backus of Draper Atlantic and quite a few people from 
In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm. Many America Online 
executives are checking it out, too, as are some politicos like former Clinton White 
House staffers Michael Nelson and Mike McCurry (although McCurry's profile notes he's 
not receiving requests for contacts).  Such networking systems -- including Ryze.com, 
Itsnotwhatyouknow.com and Tribe.net (which is funded by The Washington Post Co.), and 
more socially oriented Friendster.com -- seem to be multiplying as fast as the 
connections themselves, especially among Californians. (Networking Without the Wine 
and Cheese 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A18526-2004Jan14&notFound=true>)
 Washington Post  

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I wonder which government agencies are located at that address? 
Why not take a look at the few dozen 
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Additional links:

* <http://cisar.org/usa/021024.htm> 

* <http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/inqtel> 

* New York Times 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/01/technology/01patt.html?ei=5062&en=d5adfdaa6578e9ff&ex=1070946000&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=>
 

* <http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/social/index.html> 

* <http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/fushman/medinfo/ddf-medinfo04.pdf> 

* Google covets your email address <http://www.google-watch.org/email.html> (via 
Google Watch) 

* Google and the National Security Agency <http://www.google-watch.org/jobad.html> 
Social Network Analysis of the 9-11 Terrorist Network 
<http://www.orgnet.com/hijackers.html> 

* Propagation of Trust and Distrust (PDF)  <http://tap.stanford.edu/trust04.pdf>

* Developing a Taxonomy of Intelligence Analysis Variables via CIA website  
<http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol47no3/article05.html>

* Google mail gets Big Brother stamp 
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1081334426703&call_pageid=968332188492>
  

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Thanks to Marcelo de Oliveira Santos.

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