Link Analysis at the FBI: Part 1 « Free Ali Al-Timimi. Links, Hyperlinks, and Phantom Links If a picture is worth a thousand words, can a hyperlinked visualization reveal a fraud upon the court? Link Analysis is a group of techniques and technologies used to understand and visualize the relationships between objects. In the criminal investigation and intelligence worlds, those objects are the people, phone numbers, bank accounts, and places into which you want to obtain better insight.
Link analysis software allows you to visualize different aspects of related objects to see their interconnectedness. For example, to understand who’s calling whom you tell the link analysis software to include only phone call records and filter out irrelevant aspects such as gender, marital status, or eye color for a group of people. Likewise if you wanted to visualize a graph of a person’s friends, and their friends’ friends, and the friends of all of their friends… then Link Analysis will allow you to do this type of research quite easily.
Like this: Link Analysis Tool : The ultimate open source SEO tool. Backlink analysis is a trick business and can be quite resource hungry. That’s why I’ve started developing an open source Link Analysis Tool. The tool is currently in Beta and you can download it here. My idea is that by releasing this as an open source project other programmers and skilled people can help me improve the tool based on feature requests and bug reports from the community. The script has an auto installer to set up the Mysql databases, you will need a Yahoo API – details are in the readme. Please leave feedback and feature requests in the comments below, if any PHP programmers want to contribute then drop me an email. What it does Example: I enter my competitors url and the tool brings up a list of all their pages with the most linked pages at the top of the list. Screenshots Licensing.
Predicate-based Link Analysis: A Post 9/11 Analysis (1+1= 13) Had I been blogging in 2001, this would have been posted then. And although I posted something similar to this on May 16th of last year [here] … I am posting this now as some of the reporting to date around my work in this area has been overstated and/or inaccurate. Following September 11th many newspaper and magazine stories began showing how the hijackers were related to each other and ultimately to Osama Bin Laden. And with these pictures came suggestions that this event could have been prevented had the government had access to much more data (e.g., health care records, banking records, communications, etc.). As well, there appeared to be an emerging consensus that by studying merely the shape of the 9/11 network, one may able to locate similarly shaped networks – thus, detecting and preempting future events.
I disagreed with this thinking. Ever see someone standing in front of a giant graph? Networks are useful when one has an entrance point. The Six Degrees of Kevin Arbitrary. Microsoft PowerPoint - Link Analysis as a tool for CI - Powered by Google Docs. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Analysis Defined. i2 - Counterterrorism Analysis. The Open Source Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Project. Intelligence Is The Future - Intelligence Applications & Analysis for Law Enforcement. Open Source Intelligence. It’s been a while since we last weighed in on Libya, but recent events warrant an updated look at the future of the conflict. Two events in particular raise questions worth exploring. First, a recent New York Times piece interviewing Seif al-Islam Gaddafi suggests the family has found an ally in Islamist groups.
This news was followed shortly by reports from rebel fighters suggesting that Khamis Gaddafi, son of Muammar and the head of a prominent military division, was killed by NATO airstrikes. I’ll start with the second issue and work back to the claims of state ties with Islamist groups. As for reports of Khamis Gaddafi being killed by airstrikes, it’s worth noting that similar rumors emerged from the fighting earlier this year and remain unconfirmed (something mentioned in our coverage of Gaddafi’s inner circle).
Timeline of Gaddafi's son Khamis killed in Libyan fighting Treemap of ties drawn up through scanning Gaddafi and Islamist Examples of this include: