usatoday.com - 12/26/2008
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USA TODAY WASHINGTON The Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs and message boards that terrorists use to plan attacks in the USA. The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the Internet to plan bombings, recruit members and ...
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WASHINGTON — The terrorism threat to the United
States over the next five years will be driven...
by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence ...
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Five-Year Intelligence Assessment: Terror Threat Driven ...
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Feds may mine blogs for terrorism clues
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... can easily get materials and make an improvised explosive device (IED), the department said. "There is a lot of IED information generated by terrorists everywhere websites, forums, people telling you where to buy fertilizer and how to plant IEDs," said Hsinchun Chen, director of the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab. Chen's "Dark Web" research project has found 500,000,000 terrorist pages and postings, including tens of thousands that discuss IEDs. Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20081224/terr...
Feds May Mine Blogs For Terrorism Clues
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Researchers see rise in Web’s use to plan attacks
By Thomas Frank
WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs and message boards that terrorists use to plan attacks in the USA.
The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the Internet to plan bombings, recruit members and spread propaganda. “Blogging and message boards have played a substantial role in allowing ...
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