Dark Web, a giant, searchable database at the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is an attempt to uncover, cross-reference, catalogue and analyze all online terrorist-generated content on the at least 7000 to 8000 terrorist sites.
A team of computational scientists have created a new technology they are calling the "Dark Web" which aims to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.
With CIA backing, a U.S. company has developed a method to parse electronic documents almost instantly and diagram all of the sentences inside, helping turn chatter into information that is relevant and usable.
Driven underground, the al Qaeda terrorist network has learned to exploit the Internet as it recasts itself into a more elusive, self-perpetuating form.
The author argues that privacy advocates are hindering development of sophisticated pattern-analysis and data mining tools for detecting terrorist networks.
Civil libertarians are outraged about Total Information Awareness, the government's Orwellian plan to monitor everyone, all the time. But some computer scientists say it might be the only way to save civilization.
USA Today reports that terrorists are using the web to organize their jihad, utilizing sophisticated stegonography and encryption techniques to avoid detection.
To combat terrorism, federal officials are planning a massive intelligence-gathering system that will ultimately combine more than $100 million in new funding, powerful new terrorism laws, an expanded role for local police and state-of-the-art computer networks that will link federal agents with thousands of police departments.
David Stephenson argues that the Office of Homeland Security should be take advantage of the fundamental characteristics of internet technologies - their ability to empower individuals, to close the loop and to link everything - to combat terrorism.
The author argues that the terrorist threat will push "the global economy toward a truly networked world -- one where pervasive sensors could detect and disrupt terrorist attacks" throught persuasive computing.