Web Scanner Can Detect Terror Content

(Ha'aretz) Yuval Dror- Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev reported Sunday that they have developed a system that can identify 95% of Internet pages with terrorism-related content. According to Dr. Mark Last of the Department of Systems Information Engineering, the system uses pattern recognition to locate users affiliated with terror organizations and new sites set up by terrorist elements. The development has great importance in view of the considerable use of the Internet in coordinating and orchestrating terror acts.


2004-08-17 00:00:00

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