INDECT of beter, hoe de EU je internet gedrag gaat monitoren

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Op vrijdag 19 maart 2010 08:54 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:
Noem het maar weer naïviteit!
Ik zeg eigenlijk niet dat ik vertrouwen heb in 'de overheid', maar dat ik vertrouwen heb in de integriteit van ons rechtssysteem.

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Op vrijdag 19 maart 2010 08:54 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:
Een burgerplicht zou ik het niet noemen. Maar als er aan mij gevraagd wordt mee te werken aan zo'n onderzoek dan zou ik dat wel, onder bepaalde voorwaarden, doen ja!

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Op maandag 22 maart 2010 21:32 schreef Dalilah het volgende:
Is de biochip en de bijbehorende technologie nou een controle-instrument voor Big Brother of is het slechts een gadget uit de categorie “het gemak dient de mens”?

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Internet Crawling
This section describes the aspects of access to the content available in the Internet network,
specifically in the World Wide Web (WWW) pages. This section describes the repository,
its access procedures, legal and technical aspects. The section is concluded with a use case
example.
4.1. Repository
From the end-user point of view the Internet can be seen as a type of a data repository. The
information is distributed and not uniformly organised. WWW pages are often used as a
publication place for forbidden content. Forbidden here is understood as content, of which
publication is considered to be a serious crime. Examples of such content are web pages which
propagate children pornography, racism, fascism etc.
4.2. Access Procedures
Standard WWW programming language, the HTML allows to create an automated software
which is capable of automatic browsing of WWW content. This applications are called web
crawlers. Such applications are commonly used by WWW indexing applications employed by
Internet search engines. Web crawlers traverse the web following the hypertext links, which connect
the web pages of websites (inter-website crawling) and connect between different services
(intra-website crawling).
4.2.1. Legal Aspects
The information provided in this section is applicable throughout the European Union. The
given examples and legal acts are specific for Poland. For Police as law enforcement Internet
constitutes as one of many human activities where criminal activities takes place. To enhance
Police capabilities in the field of Internet investigations there is a great need for employing
helpful IT tools related to specific Internet protocols. One of such tools are Internet crawlers
facilitating the HTTP protocol aimed at gathering and revealing information available to the
public, which could be categorised as of the criminal origin.
Police exercise their power upon dedicated act called “The Act on Police” [13]. Also the
supplementary acts, such as “The Penal Code” [46] and “The Code of Penal Procedure” [47]
that are to be considered.
Under act on Police to one of the main Police powers belong: obtaining information, including
secret and confidential information, collecting, verifying and processing them, subject
to restrictions under relevant articles of act on Police. All investigation activities carried out
by Police on the Internet are mainly based on the above mentioned acts in order to prevent
and investigate crime and in order to seek persons hiding their whereabouts from the courts.
Utilizing crawlers accounts for one of the methods of information gathering and crime revealing.
Due to the enormous number of variable content accessible by the public on the Internet,
as well as limited number of Police capabilities it is important to effectively replace manual
investigation activities with automated ones.
4.2.2. Technical Aspects
The WWW crawler, which is being developed in the INDECT project is capable of accessing
WWW content. It is able to analyse the structure of the web page in order to identify the
multimedia objects contained within the web pages. It is also capable, as with regular WWW
crawlers, to follow the links both within one websites and between different websites.
The WWW crawling techniques are known and applied for several years, but their adaptation
and application for Police daily work is a novel. The functionality offered by the INDECT
crawler will allow to limit the amount of tedious work required for manual browsing of WWW
resources.
In order to work the INDECT crawler requires the user to provide initial information. This
information are: the starting point of search (a WWW address), the depth of search (maximum
number of hyperlinks to follow) and the filters which are to be used for the task (filters are
covered later).
Once the INDECT crawler encounters a multimedia object (e.g. an image) it downloads it
and performs the analysis of the content. The software tools used for analysis of the media files
have modular construction and are referred as plug-ins. Currently the following plug-ins are
implemented:
 The image-graphic filter. This filter allows for automatic recognition of such images as
borders, rulers, bullet points etc. Such elements of the WWW page do not carry any
significant information and need to be removed before other, more advanced, filters are
applied in order to sustain a high level of performance of the crawler.
 The face detection filter. This filter allows to identify any images that contain faces in
the images acquired from the WWW page.
 Symbol detection filter (under development). This filter allows to identify any images
that contain a given symbol. This filter will be especially useful when searching for such
symbols as swastika, pentagram, inverted cross etc.
The workflow of the INDECT crawler application is depicted in Figure 18.
In the current state of implementation the INDECT crawler is capable of analysing images.
Future versions of the INDECT crawler will be able to deal with videos and sound files (if the
functionality will be required by the end users).
4.3. INDECT Website Crawler as an Example Application Scenario
The Police officer is supposed to identify the users of an auctioning portal who use the portal
to sell flags with a symbol of swastika. The problem is, that the perpetrators do not include
any meaningful textual description to the auction. Therefore, the textual search engine in the
auctioning portal is unable to find the auctions. As the auctioning portal is offering hundreds
of thousands of auctions concurrently it is impossible to traverse the portal manually. The
perpetrators are offering their merchandise by providing direct links to the auctions at the
closed and secure forum.
The Police officer, after contacting the administrators of the portal employs the INDECT
crawler and orders it to crawl the portal with the task of finding the images containing a
symbol of swastika. This will allow to identify the perpetrators auctions. After that, thanks to
cooperation with the auctioning portal administration it is possible to bring the perpetrators
to custody.

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This file, marked “confidential” that was leaked to wikileaks, describes development of an EU-funded intelligence gathering system (“INDECT work package 4″) designed to comb weblogs, chat sites, news reports, and social networking sites to in order to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships.

“The aim of work package 4 (WP4) is the development of key technologies that facilitate the building of an intelligence gathering system by combining and extending the current state-of-the-art methods in Natural Language Processing (NLP). One of the goals of WP4 is to propose NLP and machine learning methods that learn relationships between people and organizations through websites and social networks. Key requirements for the development of such methods are: (1) the identification of entities, their relationships and the events in which they participate, and (2) the labelling of the entities, relationships and events in a corpus that will be used as a means both for developing the methods.”

For the public background to INDECT, see http://indect-project.eu/

Sounds very Orwellian eh? I don’t even think Orwell could have imagined the world we live in today. Now lets have a look at a few points of the official story of what they say this spy system will be used for. From their website,

The main objectives of the INDECT project are:

* to develop a platform for: the registration and exchange of operational data, acquisition of multimedia content, intelligent processing of all information and automatic detection of threats and recognition of criminal behaviour or violence,
* to develop the prototype of an integrated, network-centric system supporting the operational activities of police officers, providing techniques and tools for observation of various mobile objects,
* to develop a new type of search engine combining direct search of images and video based on watermarked contents, and the storage of metadata in the form of digital watermarks.

This is strait of their website, note how they put in bold main objectives, it’s laughable word play, they also go on to say on their website in bold might I add, “INDECT is a research project. The list of objectives DOES NOT include ANY kind of global monitoring of ANY society”.

Below is a few excerpts from the document and give as slight idea of what the system can do.

“The WP4-annotation & knowledge representation scheme allows the identification of several
types of entities, groups the same references into one class, while at the same time allows the
identification of relationships and events.”

“Description of Datasets & Annotation Schemes
In this report we focus on the annotation schemes used in a set of 6 publicly or under license
available corpora. These datasets/annotation schemes are the following:


• Automatic Content Extraction (ACE)
The first dataset is the Automatic Content Extraction Dataset (release: LDC2007E63)
[2]. This dataset is provided by the Linguistic Data Consortium [1] under license. This
dataset has been produced using a variety of sources, such as news, broadcast
conversations, etc. Table 1.1 provides an overview of the dataset properties. More
importantly, ACE annotation also focuses on co-reference resolution, identifying
relations between entities, and the events in which these participate.


• Knowledge Base Population (KBP)
The annotation scheme in KBP focuses on the identification of entity types of Person
(PER), Organization (ORG), and Geo-Political Entity (GPE), Location (LOC), Facility
(FAC), Geographical/Social/Political (GPE), Vehicle (VEH) and Weapon (WEA).
The goal of the 2009 Knowledge Base Population track (KBP) [3] is to augment an
existing knowledge representation with information about entities that is discovered
from a collection of documents. A snapshot of Wikipedia infoboxes is used as the
original knowledge source. The document collection consists of newswire articles on
the order of 1 million. The reference knowledge base includes hundreds of thousands of
entities based on articles from an October 2008 dump of English Wikipedia. The
annotation scheme in KBP focuses on the identification of entity types of Person (PER),
Organization (ORG), and Geo-Political Entity (GPE).”

You don’t need to be a genius to figure out they need to get a very broad base of information, including many people who they talk to and what they are doing online, to get even the faintest idea of what is criminal behavior or violence, again this is laughable that they think people will swallow this crap.

From the official document that was leaked I noticed at how they group a few reasons for the system together hooliganism, terrorism, vandalism, they always manage to slip terrorism in there some were don’t they in the middle of minor things like hooliganism does that justify spying on everyone? no, see how they find trumped up reasons then slip in there terrorism, that scary word as if we will automatically accept being spied on?, but the more worrying side is, that this document was for the universities as well, they are contributing to the system, the wording is just like what is done with the police but with training, the police are conditioned to oppress with laws they are obliged to in force thinking they are doing good, these students are contributing to a spy system thinking they are going to do some good when it’s the complete opposite.

It all boils down to the tyrants behind this Orwellian spy system thinking all people are ignorant to their schemes, for it to work they bank on people to not notice they are setting up a system to profile all people, see I can play with bold too, except I mean it and they lie. This system can be called nothing but a database on every person in the EU and possibly world-wide, it is possible, which as it states, it is automated so it very feasible it is able to profile the majority of people online, as the google crawler for an example databases all websites and web pages online .

Now we need to sit back for a minuet and understand what this can be used for, it’s first victims will no doubt be protesters and journalists, profiling them and what they are reporting on or protesting, and database it, then when the government of a said country needs to know if a certain protester or journalist is a threat to their secrets getting out,or should I say their lies, then the spy system gives them all the information they need and every reason to take them down, hinder or even just lock up.

This is happening already under existing laws, security services, journalists (real journalists not mainstream puppets) but the people who search for real information that is in the public’s interest to know are harassed by the police, detained in the airports, humiliatingly searched and called terrorists, just look at the UK stop and search anti-terror laws, they are, or should I say were till European court ruled them illegal, almost daily used on real journalists and in one case I heard they were used on an 11 year old girl, yes you read that’s right used on a 11 year old girl, so we can understand any law at some point will be abused, just as this spy system will eventually be abused and used against all people.

We must now recognize what they are doing and spread the word to as many people as we can, as the saying goes, knowledge is power, if as many people know and understand what is going on then we defiantly have a fighting chance against this tyranny.

Click the link below to view the document, you don’t even need to read every word to get the scale of what this system can do, I urge you to read it and pass it on to as many people as you can.
http://file.wikileaks.org/file/indect-deliverable-4-2009.pdf
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