Spotting Terrorists Before They Strike
How can we find home-grown terrorists who have been indoctrinated by (usually) internet propaganda, like Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, killing 12 people and wounding 31 others?
The Defense Dept. intelligence Agency (DARPA) is asking scientists to look at the emails of groups of people around the world and create a program that can "make them quantitatively analyzable in a rigorous, transparent and repeatable fashion." Armed with this program, the military can target groups that are vulnerable to terrorists’ recruiting tactics, and perhaps even counter their messages with emails that give the opposite views.
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