The Air Force’s geek squad wants the technology to monitor government employees’ deviant online behavior. And they want you to build it.
Today, the Air Force issued a call for proposals from small businesses, with this objective: “Define, develop, and demonstrate innovative approaches for determining ‘good’ (approved) versus ‘bad’ (disallowed/subversive) activities, including insiders and/or malware.”
But taboo activity could span everything from leaking top secret information to spamming contacts with a chain letter to
visiting any site that government officials deem dubious. Previously, they’ve said some interesting things about social networking, which may or may not influence what they’d do with new tools.
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