Photos: How computing cracks terrorist networks

Spook tech

By Nick Heath, 23 September 2008 14:54

This spider's web of coloured spheres shows how the system reveals the relationships between the key people, places and organisations that frequently occur together.

By pulling a sliding bar on screen the web slowly weaves itself, starting by linking the most significant entities.

The demonstration revealed how one individual linked the ASG and JI.

Hoque said: "Very quickly you are starting to drill down to create some meaningful intelligence.

"In minutes I have gone from a starting point of simply looking at the Philippines to uncovering the main groups and the people connecting them."

Photo credit: Detica

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