Unsolicited Terrorism Tips to the U.S. Government

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I wonder what kind of data analysis/AI they use. It seems like for something like this to work, at some point, they need to do massive statistical analysis as well as cross referencing.

I hope that this isn't all just being done manually by people at a desk.

edit: I would hope they run analysis on the person reporting it as well, as I would expect a significant amount of these reports come from people who are slightly deranged, or at least unreasonably paranoid.

I find Schneier's blogs infuriatingly annoying, mainly because to me it feels like he doesn't interject his own ideas, rather focusing on content from other locations (even if some of those locations are references to himself).

I feel that the point of a blog should be to present your own ideas, rather than leaning on content from others. Give me the entire story on one page; don't make me click to 3 or 4 other sources.

Well, I feel it acts as a security aggregator. There is some original content there at times, but the value, in my opinion, is the commentary, and the aggregation. A lot of people send Schneier news, and a lot of people read his blog. It's a convenience service.

looking at his front page right now, about 20% of the posts have some significant perspective from him.

because of Schneier's credibility and clear explanations, a lot of people who aren't security professionals follow his blog as their primary source for security news. also when he highlights a story, it often leads to additional coverage on places like boing boing, slashdot -- and Hacker News. so his style's optimized for that.

And the Friday squid crap is annoying as well.

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