Idea: Listening + Location
Use a morally neutral set of processes, packaged together, to target someone for anything from charity donations, to assassination, to advertising.
Lock on.
- Find a name (pretty easy), find an address (also pretty easy), and establish this as a baseline. (You can buy this data from a deviant pretty easily if its unavailable on Google.)
- Track your target via social media (without having to read each item). Watch for activity on Twitter, blogs, Facebook.
Establish movement patterns.
- If you’re in the same area, get richer data by put a GPS transponder under their vehicle. (This kind of system, off the shelf, costs about $20 per target per year + a few bucks for hardware.) If not, just pay attention to their mobile location aware app participation.
Expand the network.
- Find who they live with, work with. Execute the same process. Build a network graph. Map out all movement in a particular social cluster. See where they interact. Drop in and listen in to their interaction if its relevant.
Note, this isn’t going to be useful for tracking assets in Afghanistan. However, this can reduce the need for human trackers to participate in the information collection process for middle to upper class individuals with the funds to move, a car, a phone, etc. Think corporate espionage more than network warfare.
-Shlok
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