IT Infrastructure

There's little doubt in my mind the NSA is actively <a href="http://www.information.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188100750">mining huge stores of data</a> and performing social network analysis to produce complex maps of terrorist networks in the hunt for al-Qaida. And if it does it right, it could see some success. It's not like social network analysis of al-Qaida hasn't been done before, even by yours truly (though I admit I don't think I've ever caught a terrorist).

byJ. Nicholas Hoover, Senior Editor, information Government