SkyNet still exists, but is afraid of early termination

According to The Intercept , well-known journalist Ahmad Zaidan Muaffak fell under the scope of automatic system to track down terrorists by analyzing data from the mobile network. It added to the black list on suspicion of involvement in al-Qaeda.

Edward Snowden a few years ago gave reporters секретныепрезентации, of which it became known that the US National Security Agency NSA (NSA) is a system under the menacing title SKYNET. Presentations describe in detail the principles of the system.

This SKYNET will not be able to launch nuclear missiles automatically and wipe out most of humanity. But she knows how to handle large volumes of data from of GSM-networks. It keeps track of people included in black lists and highlights suspicious patterns of behavior. In the system used by cloud computing and machine learning.



The system keeps track of people traveling from the list determines what they do on arrival in the place who call. They go there often one and the same route. Does the SIM-card, or perhaps often turn off your phone. Who intersect the coordinates of their phones (which speaks of the possibility of a meeting). It does not work if the phone person solely on incoming calls. And check various combinations of such data.

The algorithm tries to identify the behavior of al-Qaida couriers, traveling between the business centers of this organization, and worked on journalists. Travel journalist scouting for sources of information and interviewing people who were similar to the movement of couriers.

By the way, the NSA has the same program, very similar in effect to the SkyNet from the famous film. It is called MonsterMind about it and it was also reported by Snowden, who spoke about it last year, .

The program works with cyber attacks, and, by design, is to quickly detect and block attempts of attacks aimed at the United States. Analyzing huge amounts of traffic, it is designed not only to confront cyber threats, but to fight back in case of computer intrusion. Here are just some reason, she could not not help, for example, in the latter case, the scandalous burglary nets the White House, accusing Russian hackers.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/250154/