[MtnClimber]

Free Republic users are probably on the lists of the leftists.

[ClearCase_guy]

Fortunately, the government can’t actually find anyone’s email.

Right?

[Svartalfiar]

Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere

I will simply start at the very beginning and follow a technique laid out in a beautiful paper by my brilliant former colleague, Mr Ron Breiger, called “The Duality of Persons and Groups.”

...

We did not start with a “social networke” as you might ordinarily think of it, where individuals are connected to other individuals. We started with a list of memberships in various organizations. But now suddenly we do have a social networke of individuals, where a tie is defined by co-membership in an organization.

...

From a table of membership in different groups we have gotten a picture of a kind of social network between individuals, a sense of the degree of connection between organizations, and some strong hints of who the key players are in this world. And all this—all of it!—from the merest sliver of metadata about a single modality of relationship between people.

[BenLurkin]

[Opinionated Blowhard]

All you have to do is watch one of those Investigation Discovery programs to know that, if you kill your husband or wife and text your lover about it, the police will be able to pull about a year’s worth of your text messages from cell phone records and nail you for it.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

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