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Watching him watching you New Scientist vol 178 issue 2399 – 14 June 2003, page 44 Eugenie Samuel (from our discussion board) Excerpt: “……the aim of TIA is to develop bots that look for characteristic and very specific patterns of terrorist activity. "TIA is not data mining, it is hypothesis driven," says Jan Walker, spokeswoman for DARPA. To do this, TIA bots will upload themselves to other locations and incorporate themselves into the host code. They might reorganise a database of credit card records that is only searchable under credit card number and name, so it can be searched for certain kinds of purchase as well. Once on the host system, the bot can run its search there, pulling out complex patterns in the data, such as the coincidence of certain phone calls or travel plans. This information is then returned to the intelligence agency via the internet or other data links.” Interesting to note the comment from a DARPA spokeswoman, Jan Walkser that TIA is not “data mining” , it is hypothesis driven ! That comment seems a little “defensive” Definition of “Data Mining” in (Turban McLean Wetherbee p 413 ) “ Data mining is a tool used to search for and extract useful information from volumes of data . Data mining is used in a process called knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) etc ) Respectfully, surely the “bots” mentioned in the article are performing “data mining “techniques” from huge volumes of data, albeit “automated” ?? The “hypothesis “ in this context would be, which theory ? An “instruction” to a “bot” to search for certain characteristics of data ? Surely an “instruction” programmed into some computer software “code” is more than an “hypothesis? The other interesting information was that TIA was originally named the: Total Information Awareness program, then re-named the Terrorism Information Awareness program due to members of the US Congress, and others being concerend about privacy and civil liberties of American Citizens.hence “Orwellian “overtones in the article. I have provided a few “links” that I found when searching for DARPA , who interestingly enough was ARPA , whom I am sure you are more than aware of Part I: The history of ARPA leading up to the ARPANET A climate of pure research surrounded the entire history of the ARPANET. The Advanced Research Projects Agency was formed with an emphasis towards research, and thus was not oriented only to a military product. The formation of this agency was part of the U.S. reaction to the then Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957. (ARPA draft, III- 6). ARPA was assigned to research how to utilize their investment in computers via Command and Control Research (CCR). Dr. J.C.R. Licklider was chosen to head this effort. Licklider came to ARPA from Bolt, Beranek and Newman, (BBN) in Cambridge, MA in October 1962. (ARPA draft, III-6) This became of course the Internet Source: http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/arpa--1.html Genoa II is also discussed on http://www.ai.sri.com/project/GENOAII SRI’s Artificial Intelligence Centre http://212.111.49.124/news-archive/tia/total-information-awareness.htm http://infowar.net/tia/www.darpa.mil/iao/GenoaII.htm http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/ Total "Terrorism" Information Awareness (TIA) The Electronic Privacy Information Centre I assume these