Comments on: Tracking the Threat

Tracking the Threat

hama7 — Wed, 26 May 2004 16:51:31 -0800

Tracking the Threat.

By: Item

Item — Wed, 26 May 2004 17:17:00 -0800

Status: Unknown. Heh.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Wed, 26 May 2004 17:28:42 -0800

Reminds me of Slashdots Friends/Foes system...

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Wed, 26 May 2004 17:43:39 -0800

Kinda nice how the mosque sits in there with the all the killers in the Threat Gallery up top.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 26 May 2004 17:45:16 -0800

Tracking the Threat needs to add six more names back to the active database--apparently all six are still alive.... BOO!

By: ook

ook — Wed, 26 May 2004 17:55:13 -0800

Odd but interesting system. One big area for improvement: why two redundant data fields for "Reliability of Source" and "Credibility of Information," but none for who the source actually was?

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 26 May 2004 18:03:21 -0800

Hey, if we're talking "open source intelligence" here, some of us could provide some quality data on other non-Islamic threats... anybody know some of Tim McVeigh's other friends? BTW, that guy with the white shirt and tie in the middle of the second row looks like an ex-boss of mine. No Muslim, but I never trusted him.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Wed, 26 May 2004 18:21:22 -0800

Can we focus on the important part here? THIS IS POST 33333!

By: plemeljr

plemeljr — Wed, 26 May 2004 18:21:59 -0800

Why is the number 703.555.1212 listed? This site is really shaping up to be the next biggest thing in crime fighting.

By: riviera

riviera — Wed, 26 May 2004 19:07:35 -0800

It's Terroristster. (But I do credit them for giving the Zarqawi-Al Qaeda link an 'F-6'.) It appears to be running on a Microsoft database, though, so expect it to be hacked pretty quickly.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Wed, 26 May 2004 19:45:16 -0800

Terrorists can now easily check whether or not they have been compromised enough to need to change their identity or appearance. Excellent, way to help the terrorists, fucktards. God bless America.

By: namespan

namespan — Wed, 26 May 2004 19:51:08 -0800

Umm... what about adding false information?

By: ook

ook — Wed, 26 May 2004 20:18:51 -0800

Oh, get a grip, Space Coyote; the public site is just a demo for a bit of specialized database software. (Which could be used to track muslims, or montana militiamen, or members of greenpeace; but at the moment it's not being used to track anybody, they're still at the "actively seeking partnerships" phase.) It's not like any of the information posted in the demo is classified, or unknown to anybody even vaguely involved with it; you could probably compile the same data by just going through a month's worth of newspapers, and surely everyone whose name appears on that list has already done so. (Unless you were being sarcastic. In which case please shoot me.)

By: chunking express

chunking express — Wed, 26 May 2004 22:57:28 -0800

This is great. I don't have to hate all muslims now.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Thu, 27 May 2004 04:02:52 -0800

ook: I was being horribly sarcastic but also pointing out that public participation in witch-hunts hasn't historically helped to make them more accurate.

By: ook

ook — Thu, 27 May 2004 08:41:51 -0800

*bang* (but I really don't think they intend this to be used by the public -- it looks more like an intranet app for smaller Departments Of Witchhunting.)