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New ‘Profile-Based’ Target Discovery Tool Shows Promise

SUMMARY

A new metadata analysis tool is deployed in an attempt to find drug trafficking targets in southwest Asia. Instead, it stumbles on an Iran-based human smuggling ring. This, the article posits, represents “a promising and innovative means of identifying previously unknown SIGINT targets.”

DOCUMENT’S DATE

May 19, 2006

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Aug 15, 2018