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 Lacak Orang di Twitter dan Facebook Lewat Raytheon's Riot Perusahaan keamanan multinasional, Raytheon, menggembangkan program komputer yang disebut "Riot" dengan kemampuan melacak seseorang dari media jejaring sosial di Internet seperti Facebook, Twitter, dan Foursquare. Piranti lunak itu, seperti dilansir The Guardian, juga dapat memperkirakan perilaku serta lokasi seseorang dengan melihat statistik lokasi ketika masuk dalam situs jejaring sosial tertentu. Raytheon mengatakan program yang mempunyai kepanjangan Rapid Information Overlay Technology itu belum dijual kepada pihak mana pun. Namun, perusahaan yang berbasis di Massachusetts AS itu mengaku telah membagi program mereka dengan Pemerintah AS sebagai bagian dari kerjasama penelitian dan pengembangan sejak 2010. Kerjasama itu bertujuan membangun kemampuan sistem keamanan jaringan dengan menganalisis triliunan entitas dari dunia siber. The Guardian menyebut kemampuan program Riot memanfaatkan situs- situs terkenal untuk mengawasi pengguna internet dan menjadi teknik kontroversi yang menarik badan- badan intelijen dan kemanan AS. "Pada saat yang sama, juga menggugah kebebasan sipil dan perhatian akan privasi dalam jaringan," sebut Ryan Gallagher dari The Guardian. Dengan Riot, siapapun dapat mengetahui kehidupan sesorang dari Internet seperti siapa saja relasinya melalui Twitter, tempat-tempat yang dikunjungi dari Foursquare, serta foto- foto yang telah tersebar di Facebook bahkan tanpa harus masuk dalam situs-situs itu.
 
 
 
  www.aclu.orgA video touting software created by Raytheon to mine data from social networks has been attracting an increasing amount of attention in the past few days, since it was uncovered by Ryan Gallagher at the Guardian. As best as I can tell from the video and Gallagher’s reporting, Rayth...
 
 
 
 Software was pitched to the U.S. government, but not yet sold Raytheon Comp. (RTN) has created a social networking tracking program called Rapid Information Overlay Technology -- or "RIOT", for short -- which is building a database of trillions of pieces of data on millions of users' social networking profiles. The software digs into the usual suspects -- Facebook, Inc.'s (FB) ubiquitous social network, popular microblogging site Twitter, and FourSquare, whose location-aware apps boast 25 million users. I. RIOT is Watching You The idea of RIOT is to allow government agents to in a click or two examine both your behavior history, and more interestingly (or alarmingly) predict your potential future actions. Today, mobile client use has finally overtaken desktop use for Facebook, the world's largest network. But hidden in most mobile posts by Facebook's over 1 billion users is an information is an "exif" information tag, a special string that identifies the latitude and longitude the user posted from. By mining exif data publicly available posts (or alternatively creating Facebook softbots to friend users and lure them into RIOT's circle of friendship), RIOT is capable of tracking citizens' daily movements. In a video, Brian Urch, principle investigator on the RIOT project at Raytheon describes, "We're going to track one of our own employees." By mining the publicly available information, the demo shows how the client determined that "Nick" commonly frequents Washington Nationals Park. It even shows off a photo of a blonde whom Nick posed with at the park. But RIOT's most powerful capability is trying to analyze the future. Its spidery webs of information spread out, assessing the trends in Nick's behaviors. It makes a discovery -- Nick goes to the gym each day at 6 a.m. Mr Urch comments, "... So if you ever did want to try to get hold of Nick, or maybe get hold of his laptop, you might want to visit the gym at 6am on a Monday." He encourages users with questions to shoot him an email at brian.urch@raytheon.com. II. Raytheon Fights to Keep Video Demo Secret The video was never meant to be seen by the eyes of the public. Raytheon asked Guardian, the top UK newspaper who obtained the video, not to post it. Comments Raytheon's spokesperson: Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into useable information to help meet our nation's rapidly changing security needs. Its innovative privacy features are the most robust that we're aware of, enabling the sharing and analysis of data without personally identifiable information [such as social security numbers, bank or other financial account information] being disclosed. But Raytheon's argument that the product was "proof of concept" was not enough to convince Guardian not to post the video. But even before the video, clues about RIOT were leaking out. A patent application filed by Raytheon in December -- -- contained details relating to the data mining technology in the software. [Image Source: Alex's Archives] In an interview with Guardian, Ginger McCall, an attorney at the Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), complains, "Social networking sites are often not transparent about what information is shared and how it is shared. Users may be posting information that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the Riot search." III. RIOT is Even Better at Playing Big Brother Than Perfect Citizen Raytheon, whose sales accounted for $25B USD in revenue last year, has reportedly not sold the software to any nation state clients -- yet. It reportedly demoed the software to the U.S. government at a trade show in April. President Obama has committed $200M USD to "big data" spending -- including efforts to track citizens online. The Obama Administration has stated multiple times publicly that it seeks to protect citizen rights/expectations of privacy, but internally it's often fought to step up intrusive monitoring, arguing that such procedures are necessary to fight the shadowy ambiguous "terrorist" threat. Raytheon is also authorized to export the software to foreign nations/corporations interested in using the "stalking software" on their targets, acccording to the " EAR99" designation in trade documents obtained by Guardian. EAR99 indicates that the software can "be shipped without a [government] licence to most destinations under most circumstances." The company already has one lucrative $100M USD counterterrorism contract from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Dubbed "Perfect Citizen", the NSA software aims to deploy digital "sensors" (scripts) to detect impending cyberattacks on U.S. networks. Some privacy experts have complained that Perfect Citizen was a guise for "Big Brother" style tracking. President Barack Obama has pushed for $200M USD in "big data" spending. [Image Source: Fits News] The NSA claims "Perfect Citizen" is a research and development project, and not fully deployed. But EPIC obtained documents that “suggest the program is operational and confirmed, and that Raytheon was contracted to develop and deploy certain components." By contrast RIOT takes a narrower aim at popular civilian internet activities. That means it will likely serve little use in combatting terrorists (who are unlikely to post, tweet, or "check-in" during their evil escapades). However, it does make the perfect tool for companies -- or governments -- to stalk citizens, and Raytheon is eager to turn that interest into sweet cash. ######## Raytheon's "RIOT" Software Tracks Trillions of Pieces of Your Data on Facebook
 
 
 

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