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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by zdragnar on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:34PM (#23182605)
> inductive reasoning is still a validate tool for understanding the world.

And here it has led you astray. Terrorist organisations have propaganda mouthpieces, and use social media like any other. One of my previous jobs involved building network analysis tools to identify and locate terrorists combing through their Twitter feeds.

For some, you could easily identify the point in their lives when they were radicalized, and trace connections to others who were also, and identify the people they had in common.

Inductive reasoning opens room for questions, not answers, because it does not account for unknown information.

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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by badrabbit on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:00PM (#23188041)
You are talking about the past when they were radicalized,if this happened online then you are right but I thought it was clear that I meant internet usage for organizing and planning terrorism. Propaganda and radicalization is a dragnet, you will catch many but the one cell that recruits in person and communicates on paper only by code will succeed. It's not a volume game,it's a binary game.
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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by zdragnar on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:54AM (#23192884)
No single method of intelligence gathering will win a binary game, that is just moving goal posts.
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