networked inference

Page 4   Texas Regional Advisory Council, 29 April 2016 The Texas border with Mexico is the largest of any state’s and sees a commensurate number of illegal northbound crossings. The state of Texas is by no means under blanket coverage, its expanses are simply too vast, but it does host an extensive multilayered network of surveillance and security infrastructure, and local law enforcement conducts multiple ongoing operations with federal and DoD partners for surveillance, interdiction, and border enforcement. Texas has Operations! Rio Grande sector has overwhelming majority of Texas crossings -- Stonegarden, + other Ops, Secure Texas, Border Star pic.twitter.com/fbvLLXCeyu — Kenneth Lipp (@kennethlipp) February 23, 2017 Operation Stonegarden, which funds border security initiatives in all US states with international borders '07: 28 immigrants in Chaparral, NM, including 11 schoolchildren, detained in 1 day of Operation Stonegarden; local nuns offered sanctuar...

This will be a post in three, well, probably three, parts, which I will probably post to Medium once done as a single thread. The eventual idea is to give a more complete picture of what I am trying to do -- and what I mean by networked inference. For now I want to proof a concept and get some of you along for the ride. Don't think of yourselves as bookish researchers, think CSI-Woke. When someone says a file or ‘page’ is on “the Internet,” they’re saying it’s on someone else’s computer where it can be accessed from another. The computers themselves must communicate according to a sort of heuristic, and “Google hacking” for research is really about understanding that vocabulary as well as that of the subject matter, how to find the lowest common denominator to make your task as fruitful and *automated* as possible. For this post I’m trying a cold search, “live,” if you will, in that I am typing these words and have only now conducted some preliminary information gathering (whic...