C5IS explores the merits of Sovereign Intelligence and Sixgill, pioneers in deploying deep learning and AI for Dark Web Analytics. With the Deep Web and Dark Web comprising some 90 percent of the Internet, the trick of finding the right data to monitor and analyze for "actionable intelligence" is half the challenge. Equally daunting: automating the process so that alerts are … [Read more...]
Skry and Elliptic: Cracking Cryptocurrency Blockchain
As recently as 2014-15, law enforcement investigators tended to look upon Blockchain - the peer-to-peer encrypted record of transactions used by Bitcoin - with a mix of horror and frustration. Blockchain’s system of anonymizing transactions made it all but impossible to detect who was using Bitcoin, whether for illicit purposes such as drug dealing, money laundering, murder for … [Read more...]
Far Surveillance Horizon: Blockchain and the Internet of Things
Is the Internet of Things (IoT) the next major avenue for tracking terrorists and criminals? If so, pioneering work is being done not just by the ISS community, but by an emerging group known as the Blockchain Alliance, a consortium of experts who help track criminals on the foremost technology backbone of both the IoT and digital currency: Blockchain. In this two-part … [Read more...]
Google and Glimmerglass – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Google's ramp-up in investment in undersea fiber optics is in the vanguard of content providers' bid for greater control of international communications — and will bring them face-to-face with the market leader in photonic switching and tapping, Glimmerglass Networks. Recall Google Corp's outrage over the 2013 Edward Snowden revelation that the NSA had effectively tapped all … [Read more...]
DARPA Memex and the Hunt for Deep or Dark Web Intelligence
The teaming of companies such as Diffeo, Uncharted Software and Hyperion Gray in the DARPA Memex partnership program has spurred major advances in alternative search technologies, making it possible to range all over the Web, including the Deep and the Dark portions. Without question, the types of information now available through Memex-inspired search capabilities far … [Read more...]