Via BoingBoing, creepy RPI/ NSF/ CIA research devoted to automated monitoring and profiling of the behavior of chat-room users: "We propose a system to be deployed in the background of any chat room as a silent listener for eavesdropping… The proposed system could aid the intelligence community to discover hidden communities and communication patterns in chat rooms without human intervention."
Posted by rv at November 29, 2004 08:05 PM to news