http://defensetech.org/2006/08/08/aol-leak-toward-searchcrime/ The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:25:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://defensetech.org/2006/08/08/aol-leak-toward-searchcrime/#comment-135053 Darius Teter Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:38:45 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2089#comment-135053 You state that: "This inability to divine intent from searches will naturally lead to high percentages of false positives. For example, anyone who works in the homeland security field, as I do, is likely to run searches related to terrorist tactics, infrastructure protection, etc." I agree but would push the point further: in the post 9-11 world with our troops in multiple fields of combat, and terrorists acts a daily reality, ANYONE (not just Homelnd Security employees) with even a remote interest in current events would have a legitimate reason to conduct a search on ANY terrorist related topic. Iran may have the bomb? Well I wonder how easy it is to put a nuke together? Let me check Google. Al Quaeda not jobs are streaming video on their own websites? I want to see that, I'll search AOL. Hundreds of millions of internet users that are no threat to anyone can be expected to conduct many such searches. From an investigative point of view - a certain dead end. You state that: “This inability to divine intent from searches will naturally lead to high percentages of false positives. For example, anyone who works in the homeland security field, as I do, is likely to run searches related to terrorist tactics, infrastructure protection, etc.“
I agree but would push the point further: in the post 9–11 world with our troops in multiple fields of combat, and terrorists acts a daily reality, ANYONE (not just Homelnd Security employees) with even a remote interest in current events would have a legitimate reason to conduct a search on ANY terrorist related topic. Iran may have the bomb? Well I wonder how easy it is to put a nuke together? Let me check Google. Al Quaeda not jobs are streaming video on their own websites? I want to see that, I’ll search AOL. Hundreds of millions of internet users that are no threat to anyone can be expected to conduct many such searches. From an investigative point of view — a certain dead end.

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