Previously...
“Web spy software hacks into secretive online forums”
13 April 2010 by Shehryar Mufti
SNIPPET: “However, many websites are protected by security restrictions that fend off such software. Screening out all traffic from IP addresses belonging to well-known search engines is one way to do this.
The dark web can provide a haven for extremist groups to exchange ideas, says Hsinchun Chen, director of the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson. So Chen and his team devised software to access and index protected online forums (Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1002/asi.21323).”
stepping back in time...
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924271/posts
Project seeks to track terror Web posts
Yahoo.com ^ | 11/11/2007 | ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN, Associated Press Writer
Posted on November 11, 2007 1:22:11 PM PST by CRBDeuce
At Univ of Arizona, “The Dark Web project aims to scour Web sites, forums and chat rooms to find the Internet’s most prolific and influential jihadists and learn how they reel in adherents.
Lab director Hsinchun Chen hopes Dark Web will crimp what he calls “al-Qaida University on the Web,” the mass of Web sites where potential terrorists learn their trade, from making explosives to planning attacks. Experts said they are not aware of any comparable effort, though some said the project may have only limited applications.” more at [href]”Yahoo”[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071111/ap_on_hi_te/dark_web;_ylt=Ag9H_IrfHRhz5S5Q_a_Hro9U.3QA[/url][/href]
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