Social Network Analysis (catch all)

[davidbfpo]

I would recommend your student tries the Search feature on SWC and views some of the more obvious threads: Intelligence, Law Enforcement etc. There is a thread on social networking already:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=9512

Have a look at David Omand's book 'Securing the State', which attempts to think aloud about the issues and he has been advocating greater use of personal data, he calls it 'protected information' IIRC:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Securing-Sta.../dp/1849040788

There are immense issues raised in the thesis, not just the I.T. aspects which are seemingly being "sold" to us as a "golden bullet" by many vested interests. One European academic project has tried to grapple with the issues of Detection Technologies, Counter-Terrorism Ethics, and Human Rights. Their website is:http://www.detecter.bham.ac.uk/

Two other websites that IIRC feature thoughts on the themes are:http://icsr.info/blog and http://raffaellopantucci.com/tag/terrorism/

What the proposal avoids IMHO are the arguments over whether an active public can help in CT, as seen in several threads / posts or whether new technology - the virtual domain - provides enough help?

Somewhere there is a public comment on a German CT scheme that using data analysis provided a host probable suspects, not one when investigated was a suspect.

[davidbfpo]

Referring to the dead terrorist in Sweden, another illustration of the speed of modern news media, I assume their own work:

The suicide bomber who tried to cause carnage in Stockholm followed a series of fundamentalist Islamic websites including one preparing for the Day of Judgment.

Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-Facebook.html

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to Jihadica for their excellent work on the Stockholm bombing and for this thread the link to Internet Haganah's work:http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/007103.html

[davidbfpo]

This article refers to data mining social networking sites to identify the 'hidden' threat and the more conventional post-arrest work:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

[AdamG]

Social networking can be a double-edged sword (or a source of disinformation, if you're slick)

The IDF has stepped up its war on Facebook, warning officers throughout the military that the social network site could be used by the country’s enemies to glean classified information.

In a letter sent recently to all commanders in the army from the Operations Directorate, officers were urged to inform their subordinates about the risks that exist on websites such as Facebook.

The letter was sent out following the online publication of a list of officers and soldiers featuring their photographs, names, addresses and other personal details under the title “Israeli War Criminals” for their actions during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip two years ago.

According to the Operations Directorate, most of the information on the list was authentic and came from two sources – civilian databases such as phonebooks and social network sites such as Facebook.

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=201058

[selil]

If you're talking you are leaking information. You can have a completely unclassified innocuous conversation and leak classified information all the time. Utilizing a variety of analysis techniques and the Internet items that are part of public affairs can be used to gather information. What ship is sent to see, who got promoted, and other details leak substantial details about operations. Since the Internet allows for a deeper dive into repositories of data then was ever available before you can construct substantial dossiers of seemingly disjointed information that then can mean something. I talk about the principles in detail here.

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to JIOX linking to this blog article 'How 'Open-Source Intelligence' Sculpts Targeted Attacks':http://www.internetevolution.com/aut...&doc_id=202619

Which commended this:

It was an eye opener, describing how various online applications can be used to data mine personal information and turn it into OSINT.

The presentation is a video of a session, nearly an hour and is called 'Using Social Networks To Profile, Find and 0wn Your Victims':http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=v...Your%20Victims