At 05:41 AM 9/15/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >NSF Award Abstract - #0442154
Yeah, this is Science (snicker)... >Surveillance, Analysis and Modeling of Chatroom Communities > Abstract > The aim of this proposal is to develop new techniques for information >gathering, analysis and modeling of chatroom communications. First, the >investigator and his colleague consider graph-less models to capture the >structure of chatroom communications. In particular, the investigators >study how to develop a multidimensional singular value decomposition buzzword alert >approach for component analysis of chatroom communication data. Second, the >investigators develop new visualisation techniques to display the buzzword alert >structural information found in the first step. > Internet chatrooms provide an interactive and public forum of >communication for participants with diverse objectives. Two properties of >chatrooms make them particularly vulnerable for exploitation by malicious >parties. First, the real identities of the participants are decoupled from >their chatroom nicknames. As if email doesn't share that property? You really think I work for cdc.gov? Second, multiple threads of communication can >co-exist concurrently. What a fucking concept... Although human-monitoring of each chatroom to >determine "who-is-chatting-with-whom" is possible, it is very time >consuming, hence not scalable. Thus, it is very easy to conceal malicious >behavior in Internet chatrooms and use them for covert communications >(e.g., adversary using a teenager chatroom to plan a terrorist act). How about teenagers planning terrorist attacks? Or terrorists' senior proms? This >project aims at a fully automated surveillance system for data collection >and analysis in Internet chatrooms to discover hidden groups. Use textual stego, mofo. Thus, the proposed system could >aid the intelligence community to discover hidden communities and >communication patterns in chatrooms without human intervention. A pretty good argument for broadcast stego. > This award is supported jointly by the NSF and the Intelligence Community. I bet. They already 0wn the fucking IX points, and can grab the DHCP records; don't you think the spooks already do this, and more? Look at Orion Sci, which graphs gangs. Extrapolate to IP. If these bozos were better they wouldn't be in Troy.