[PSA/Article] US government builds 'Memex' search engine to catch cyber criminals lurking in the net's deepest recesses

From the article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2945864/Scouring-DEEP-WEB-government-builds-Memex-search-engine-catch-cyber-criminals-lurking-net-s-deepest-recesses.html

Some other sources:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-traffickers-caught-on-hidden-internet/

http://www.darpa.mil/newsevents/releases/2014/02/09.aspx

Interesting:

The program is specifically not interested in proposals for the following: attributing anonymous services, deanonymizing or attributing identity to servers or IP addresses, or accessing information not intended to be publicly available.

Video:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-search-engine-exposes-the-dark-web/


Comments


[43 Points] 6FatDutchmen:

Somehow I don't believe it is "just" to hunt paedophiles.


[21 Points] creon:

meme-x ... they're plotting to take away all our dank memes


[9 Points] None:

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[5 Points] ShulginsCat:

Although this is last year's news this is the first time I hear about it, so thanks for that.

People, such as those running the underground Silk Road cyber black market, often use the dark Web to anonymously post content that may or may not be legal.

Important to be politically correct here, you don't want to get SR's lawyers on you for defamation.


[3 Points] pinkpanther227:

I saw that. It sounds a lot like Maltego.


[4 Points] Archangellelilstumpz:

"Meme-x... meme's so dank, they're illegal."


[2 Points] II-NataYmleg:

They built (or ripped off) a web crawler and a pattern matching algorithm, how extremely impressive. Any run-of-the-mill Unix geek can hack it together in a shell script using only the standard GNU/BSD toolchain. Also, one year old news.

We have yet to see anything from this than the usual fearmongering.


[2 Points] None:

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[1 Points] throwaway:

The Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Memex is available at http://go.usa.gov/BBc5. To familiarize potential participants with the technical objectives of Memex, DARPA has scheduled a Proposers' Day on Tuesday, February 18, 2014, in Arlington, Va. For details, visit http://www.sa-meetings.com/memex. Registration closes on February 13, 2014, at 5 p.m. ET. There will be no on-site registration. For more information, please email memex@darpa.mil.

Sounds like vaporware/snakeoil.


[1 Points] punkinbeavisadam:

just saw this on The Hacker News glad to see its already been posted here


[1 Points] justanotherdumbnigga:

so racist


[1 Points] IIIIIIIIIIl:

eh, good


[1 Points] tinytallyn:

I wish they would just hunt down and wipe out people who mutilate little boys dicks. Remember, mutilating a girl's clitoris is a serious federal offense. But what about boys? Why is it that boys are somehow different to girls and should be treated differently? No, genitals are genitals. If you mutilate them in any circumstances outside of a clear and serious medical necessity you go straight to prison. Yeah?

I would seriously be laughing all the way through town if these vile scum were rounded up and wiped out. I would be popping a nice bottle of Cristal if that day ever came, believe me.


[1 Points] madcuntmcgee:

How does this expose anything? Can it crack pgp? Does it break tor? I doubt it.


[1 Points] CookyDough:

From: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=426485bc9531aaccba1b01ea6d4316ee

DARPA-BAA-14-21: Memex
Solicitation Number: DARPA-BAA-14-21
Agency: Other Defense Agencies
Office: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Location: Contracts Management Office

Original Synopsis Feb 04, 2014
2:36 pm

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting proposals for innovative research to maintain technological superiority in the area of content indexing and web search on the Internet. Proposed research should investigate approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.

The Memex program envisions a new paradigm, where one can quickly and thoroughly organize a subset of the Internet relevant to one's interests. Memex will address the inherent shortcomings of centralized search by developing technology for domain-specific indexing of web content and domain-specific search capabilities. Memex will develop technology to enable discovery, organization, and presentation of domain relevant content. The new search paradigm will provide fast, flexible, and efficient access to domain-specific content as well as search interfaces that offer valuable insight into a domain that previously remained unexplored.

Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Type: Other (Draft RFPs/RFIs, Responses to Questions, etc..)
DARPA-BAA-14-21.pdf (369.23 Kb)
Description: DARPA-BAA-14-21

Primary Point of Contact.:
Dr. Christopher White,
Program Manager, DARPA/I2O
Memex@darpa.mil

General Information
Notice Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Posted Date: February 4, 2014
Response Date: Apr 08, 2014 12:00 pm Eastern
Archiving Policy: Automatic, 15 days after response date
Archive Date: April 23, 2014
Original Set Aside: N/A
Set Aside: N/A
Classification Code: A -- Research & Development
NAICS Code: 541 -- Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services/541712 -- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)

Interesting. Reminds me of the recent story details of how the CIA and DARPA got google off the ground.


[0 Points] None:

Never heard of it.