Government Funds Chat Room Surveillance Research

[Bob Hubbard]

Government Funds Chat Room Surveillance Research

Author: Michael Hill, Associated Press Source: Tampa Bay Online (FL)

Title: GOVERNMENT FUNDS CHAT ROOM SURVEILLANCE RESEARCH

Amid the torrent of jabber in Internet chat rooms - flirting by QTpie and BoogieBoy, arguments about politics and horror flicks - are terrorists plotting their next move?

The government certainly isn't discounting the possibility. It's taking the idea seriously enough to fund a yearlong study on chat room surveillance under an anti-terrorism program.

A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute computer science professor hopes to develop mathematical models that can uncover structure within the scattershot traffic of online public forums.
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[Mark Weiser]

That is it dude lol. Now you have to make a list of bad words you can not say in Chat lol. Sign a contract so that the owners of the room are not liable for the content of the chat rooms. Get Full Time ADMINS in the rooms with a bleeper lol. THIS IS PRICELESS LOL!!

 

[RandomPhantom700]

Or just flood their system with posts that do nothing but repeat the red-flag words. You know, bomb, president...Muslim.

*that was sarcasm, before people start flaming*

 

[PeachMonkey]

Good job, RandomPhantom, now you've got the NSA on our cases. As if I didn't have a large enough case-file already.