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the newest piece of omni was released just today; it’s recorded future look up, a free browser extension for google chrome and mozilla firefox that lets you pivot from an ip address, domain, or hash on any web page to the recorded future intelligence summary for that indicator. using recorded future look up is simple :
noah shachtman, i’m particularly interested in this issue of this new company, recorded future. how exactly will — how exactly is recorded future working? what are they doing with the information they’re gathering now for both the
this was exhibited earlier this year when a coding website asserted that recorded future was even analyzing facebook private messages .
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recorded future' s software is programmed to constantly monitor these sources and relay data in real time. in short, if it' s being written on the open web, recorded future will likely see it and index it .
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web intelligence experts at recorded future issued the second part of the analysis on the usage of encryption by al - qaeda after the snowden leaks .
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the website, bosnadev, had posted a link to a private link in a facebook chat box. it then claimed that the link was opened by recorded future, despite it never posting the link to anything but facebook. to bosnadev, this meant that recorded future had access to private chat messages .
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pick one of these mediums and predict its future success given its current popularity .
even so, his company is likely to be clued in. that' s because recorded future doesn' t just mine open forums for information: it tries to scan every part of the open web. hackers frequently talk to each other on chat platforms known as ircs — and recorded future is able to pick up those conversations too .
in the early days, recorded future saw the most interest from the financial sector. quant investors were able to use the platform' s intel to make market predictions .
this analysis by recorded future' s insikt group reveals the overwhelming presence of american hardware and software on north korean networks and in daily use by senior north korean leaders .
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by
product releases ,
ahlberg means new software. and for the first time, recorded future says, it can now codify just how big a change it was .
but steven aftergood, a critical observer of the intelligence community from his perch at the federation of american scientists, isn' t worried about the recorded future deal. yet .
comprised of world - class domain experts in technical threat intelligence and foreign adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, our research team’s mission is to proactively discover and deliver groundbreaking insight to recorded future customers for improved risk analysis. this group, combined with recorded future’s industry - leading saas threat intelligence product, creates an unparalleled solution for mitigating cyber risk .
recorded future' s hedge - fund clients are only slightly less secretive than thecia. ehrenberg says a handful of wall street hedge funds and banks are using the technology :
recorded future is a high - value signal, relative to conventional quantitative - analysis trading signals. people are making money .
josh holden, ceo of fina technologies, which creates algorithms for high - frequency quant trading by hedge funds, says that recorded future' s client base
is closely guarded. but there are more than a few firms using it .
recorded future continuously analyzes over 700, 000 sources all across the web to highlight links between infrastructure and malware tools, vulnerabilities, adversary tactics, and even campaigns and threat actors .
ahlberg says recorded future now earns revenues in the millions of dollars from a client base of less than 100, but which includes governments, hedge funds, big banks, watchdogs and consultancies .
in the wake of such criticism, recorded future issued a supplement to its report, this time claiming that the terrorists “are not using home - brew crypto algorithms” but rather “off the shelf” methods of cryptography. but like schneier, soghoian suggested that the developments claimed by recorded future would make it easier, not harder, for the u. s. government to monitor the communications of extremists :
both investing in recorded future. and we’re joined in los angeles by john simpson, director of consumer watchdog’s inside google project. he’s calling for congressional hearings into the google wi - spy scandal .
recorded future certainly has the potential to spot events and trends early. take the case of hezbollah' s long - range missiles. on march 21, israeli president shimon peres leveled the allegation that the terror group had scud - like weapons. scouring hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah' s past statements, recorded future found corroborating evidence from a month prior that appeared to back up peres' accusations .
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recorded future is the only provider offering threat intelligence software powered by patented machine learning and delivered at scale, combined with world - class intelligence services and cyber research expertise to help security professionals identify, prioritize, and quickly respond to relevant threats targeting their organization. recorded future is laser focused on delivering actionable threat intelligence while dramatically reducing the time - consuming manual processes of threat intelligence analysis. delivered in a saas model for everywhere access and future - proofing against changing security requirements, recorded future software automates the collection of data across an unparalleled breadth of sources (open, deep, and dark web) and delivers relevant alerts in real time to dramatically improve operational efficiency and network defense .
. it’s called recorded future, and it monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and twitter accounts in real time in order to find patterns, events and relationships that may predict the future. google has done business with america’s spy agencies before, but this seems to be the first time the
view and interact with structured and consumable real - time threat intelligence. there are recorded future intelligence cards for indicators like ip addresses, vulnerabilities, and malware to drive faster analysis and more confident decisions .
if you need threat reporting or deeper insight into a specific incident, recorded future analysts provide reports that include an executive summary, detailed analysis, technical findings, and product configurations shared to your workspace .
companies trying to get a handle on what cyber - criminals are aiming to do have been seeking out recorded future' s technology. it' s slowly becoming known as an automated cyber - attack platform .
indeed, in - q - tel—the deep - pocket investment arm of both the cia and other intelligence agencies (including the nsa) —has seats on recorded future’s board of directors and, on its website, lists recorded future as one of the companies in its “portfolio. ” in stark contrast to npr, the new york times noted these connections when reporting on the firm in 2011: “recorded future is financed with $ 8 million from the likes of google’s venture arm and in - q - tel, which makes investments to benefit the united states intelligence community, and its clients have included government agencies and banks. ”
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the idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. recorded future then plots that chatter, showing online
momentum
for any given event .
screenshot of temporal analytics data from september to november 2012 concerning the fungal meningitis outbreak in the united states. such web - based techniques are needed to complement traditional methods of supporting international security agreements. credit: recorded future
, telling us that we should go foia that information if we want to know. but according to public reports, recorded future “earns most of its revenue from selling to wall street quants and intelligence agencies. ” )
still, it' s possible to identify examples of how one might use recorded future for open - source intelligence. take the al - qaeda leadership after bin laden' s death: who would fill the vacuum ?
with this report, temple - raston seriously misled npr’s millions of listeners. to begin with, recorded future, the outfit that produced the government - affirming report, is anything but independent. to the contrary, it is
where recorded future goes beyond mere analysis of open data, though, is by adding the
time and space
dimension of the documents - -
references to when and where an event has taken place, or when and where it will take place ,
says truvé ,
since many documents actually refer to events expected to take place in the future .
using rss streams allows recorded future to have a publishing time as an anchor point for this temporal analysis, which means it can deal with difficult expressions such as
next week
,
in three months' time
or
in two quarters
. this may sound simple, but it' s crucial: the time and space analysis is the first way recorded future can make predictions about the future - - by aggregating weighted opinions about the likely timing of future events using algorithmic crowdsourcing. on top of that, it uses statistical models to predict future happenings based on historical records of similar chains of events .
the secret sauce is not dependent upon one ingredient ,
says truvé .
it' s a combination .
but as a second recorded future post showed, the products that replaced mujahidin secrets relied heavily on open - source and proven encryption software. indeed, one of them uses schneier’s own, well - tested encryption algorithm, twofish .
recent research by the web intelligence firm recorded future and the middle east media research institute (memri) also concluded that snowden had hurt u. s. counterterror efforts by causing terror groups to speed development of new encryption tools .
for christopher ahlberg, predicting the future is as simple as typing a single word into a piece of software .
but it' s not always as easy for recorded future to see what' s going on in the world. tech savvy hackers, for instance, don' t publicly announce their actions in the same way, ahlberg noted .
then there are the bizarre implications from embracing the claims of the recorded future report. for years, both privacy advocates and experts in cryptography have published guides for how internet users can protect the privacy of their online activities using encryption programs such as pgp email and tor. recorded future claims that terrorist groups are using “open source” and “off the shelf” encryption to shield their communications: does that mean that anyone who publishes information on encryption is guilty of helping the terrorists ?
according to a new report to be released friday by big data firm recorded future, a direct connection can be drawn: just months after the snowden documents were released, al - qaida dramatically changed the way its operatives interacted online .
reminder: join recorded future on march 21 for a webcast on monitoring web - based open source information for securing the supply chain. special guest speaker is ceo and co - founder of sourcemap dr. leonardo bonnani. register here .
recorded future strips from web pages the people, places and activities they mention. the company examines when and where these events happened (
spatial and temporal analysis
) and the tone of the document (
sentiment analysis
). then it applies some artificial - intelligence algorithms to tease out connections between the players. recorded future maintains an index with more than 100 million events, hosted on urltoken servers. the analysis, however, is on the living web .
the connection between recorded future and the u. s. intelligence community is long known. back in july, 2010, wired ‘s noah shachtman revealed that the company is backed by both “the investment arms of the cia and google. ”
both in - q - tel and google ventures have seats on recorded future' s board. ahlberg says those board members have been
very helpful ,
providing business and technology advice, as well as introducing him to potential customers. both organizations, it' s safe to say, will profit handsomely if recorded future is ever sold or taken public. ahlberg' s last company, the corporate intelligence firm spotfire, was acquired in 2007 for $ 195 million in cash .
it does the u. s. government no good to attribute these new encryption efforts to leaks from the u. s. government itself. recorded future thus ignores that possibility altogether and suggests—with absolutely no evidence—that it was due to snowden revelations .
to acknowledge the first person who alerts us to a previously unknown and non - trivial security issue, we show our appreciation by adding their name to the acknowledgments section on this page, and offer them a snappy recorded future t - shirt .
ahlberg is the ceo of recorded future, a company that makes software that he claims can create actionable data points about what is happening — or what is going to happen — in the world by analyzing all of the text on the open web .
with billions of indexed facts, and more added every day, recorded future’s threat intelligence machine tm makes use of artificial intelligence, continuously analyzing threat data from a massive range of sources. we give you unmatched insight into emerging threats relevant to your organization .
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by npr national security reporter dina temple - raston touting explosive claims from what she called “a tech firm based in cambridge, massachusetts. ” that firm, recorded future, worked together with “a cyber expert, mario vuksan, the ceo of reversinglabs, ” to produce
in may 2014 web intelligence firm recorded future published an interesting research on the use of encryption made by al - qaeda after the snowden leaks. the study reported that members of al - qaeda are developing a series of new encryption software in response to nsa surveillance .
one of the things we really enjoy about emerging products and first looks is that from time to time we encounter something really cool that we' ve never used before. under our tree this year we found a most interesting and, it turns out, most useful threat intelligence product, recorded future. we have been receiving the free recorded future cyber daily plus reports for some time and they frame our day' s reading each morning. but for this set of reviews we got to exercise the full product and we were impressed .
recorded future’s unique technology automatically serves up relevant insights in real time and at unparalleled scale. our flexible software lets you put any type of threat intelligence where you need it — centralizing sources of threat data, enabling collaboration on analysis, and integrating with your security infrastructure .
recorded future is an all - in - one web intelligence platform, from source collection and processing to analysis and reporting. this involves many technology building blocks and buzzwords: text search, data visualization, natural language processing, and entity extraction (to name a few) .
terrorists loyal to al qaeda and its offshoots are using new encryption software, most likely in response to revelations that the national security agency is able to bypass standard cryptographic protections as part of an expansive surveillance program, according to a recently released report from intelligence firm recorded future .
but in the end, it' s really some stupid, meaningless stuff that has no bearing on russell' s basketball future .
all recorded future' s predictions, whatever the field, are based on publicly available information - - news articles, government sites, financial reports, tweets - - fed into the company' s own algorithms. the result, it claims, is a
new tool that allows you to visualise the future
- - one that is changing how government intelligence agencies gather information and how giant hedge funds place bets. on its website, recorded future states :
we don' t grant interviews and we don' t issue press releases .
but behind closed doors, the company is developing the technology that has been described be one tech blog as an
information weapon
.
cut out laborious manual collection and get more context than threat feeds alone, all updated in real time so information stays relevant. recorded future delivers contextualized intelligence that you can centralize with data from any other sources, for faster human analysis or rapid integration with your existing security infrastructure .
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we currently have a number of built - in tools to analyze the online media data collected and organized by recorded future. from that base, we can reveal the links to other web authors reporting the same event, and knit together all these perspectives into a complete web intelligence view .
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privacy concerns aside, recorded future' s software creates vast business opportunities for some. ahlberg emphasized that his company' s services shouldn' t be pigeonholed to one specific use case — saying nearly any business with a stake in online intelligence could likely find a use for its online engines .
one of the things possible with recorded future is to statistically surface major events during a particular timeframe based on factors such as recency, # of validating sources, online visibility, and more. this allows to examine how al qaeda looked during that timeframe immediately before and after the arab spring .
beyond all that, the “cyber expert” who temple - raston told npr listeners was “brought in” by recorded future to “investigate” these claims—mario vuksan, the ceo of reversinglabs—has his own significant financial ties to the u. s. intelligence community. in 2012, in - q - tel proudly touted a “strategic partnership” with reversinglabs to develop new technology for the department of homeland security. vuskan hailed the partnership as vital to his company’s future prospects .
other threat and security teams, security researchers, and malcode analysts are looking at similar incidents in their networks and labs, and publishing their assessments on sites across the web – which recorded future captures, structures for analysis, and rolls up into indicator - centric intelligence summaries, available on demand .
worse, temple - raston knows all of this. back in 2012, npr’s morning edition broadcast her profile of recorded future and its claimed ability to predict the future by gathering internet data. at the end of her report, she noted that the firm has “at least two very important financial backers: the cia’s investment arm, called in - q - tel, and google ventures. they have reportedly poured millions into the company. ”
they' re data experts: computer scientists, statisticians and experts in linguistics. and in the data, they think, lies the future .
and google are backing a company called “recorded future” that monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and twitter accounts in real time in order to find patterns, events and relationships that may predict the future. the news comes amidst google’s so - called “wi - spy” scandal, that refers to revelations that google’s street view cars operating in some thirty countries snooped on private wi - fi networks over the last three years. [ includes rush transcript ]
update: the description of recorded future was changed at the request of the company, which said, “while this may seem like splitting hairs, in the world of data analysis software “predictive analytics” has specific technical meaning which implies something different. we use the term web intelligence to reduce this confusion. ”
we saw at least three major product releases coming out with different organizations with al - qaida and associated organizations fairly quickly after the snowden disclosures ,
said recorded future' s ceo and co - founder christopher ahlberg .
but we wanted to go deeper and see how big those changes were .
recorded future offers both off - the - shelf and custom features that qradar users can use to bring real - time threat intelligence into the security operations center. through qradar’s right - click functionality, analysts can access real - time intel cards that include: ip address risk scores for event pr ...
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the 20 employees of recorded future aren' t foreign - policy experts. they aren' t traders either, but if you' d started using recorded future' s predictions to buy us stocks on january 1, 2009, you would have made an annual return of 56. 69 per cent. (the s & p 500 had an annualised return of 17. 22 per cent over the same period .) between may 13 and august 5 this year, as markets behaved with vertiginous abandon, their strategy returned 10. 4 per cent; in contrast, the s & p 500 lost 9. 9 per cent of its value .
the company, cofounded by christopher ahlberg, an entrepreneur who sold his first business for $ 195 million and served in the swedish special forces, has $ 8. 5 million in funding. its first two investors were google and the cia. recorded future counts us government agencies, banks and hedge funds among the clients paying million - dollar contracts. but its true ambition is to organise all the data on the internet for similar predictive analysis - - to make the future calculable .
anti - google glass site wants to fight a future full of cyborgs, dvice (mar. 18, 2013, 11: 41 am), urltoken .
when speaking with our ceo and co - founder christopher ahlberg about omni, he summed it up nicely when he said, “as operational defenders look to add value and better protect their organizations from cyber threats, recorded future omni improves their effectiveness and productivity by providing unique threat context from the web. this enriches any security system. ”
it turns out that this thought - to - be private link had actually been posted online via a server log put on website pastebin. while recorded future adamantly maintains that it does not have access to private facebook chat messages, the fact that it was able to access such an obscure link so systematically demonstrates the technology' s capabilities .
google ventures did not return requests to comment for this article. in - q - tel chief of staff lisbeth poulos e - mailed a one - line statement :
we are pleased that recorded future is now part of iqt' s portfolio of innovative startup companies who support the mission of the u. s. intelligence community .
we believe that intelligence should live at the center of every information security strategy and integrate with other security technologies. applying intelligence to every facet of security equips organizations to make informed, faster, and more confident decisions. our robust api makes it easy to integrate recorded future’s machine - readable threat intelligence with a host of other security solutions .
christopher ahlberg, ceo and co - founder of recorded future, said his firm’s research showed that the technical wings of al qaeda and isis released three new tools within five months of the first report based on snowden’s leaks, a faster pace than had been previously seen, and that there was a similar increase in the commercial cryptography sector .
of the four new radio technologies listed in section 7. 4 “radio’s new future”, which do you think has the most potential to succeed? explain your answer .
sandfire ag is a swiss consultancy in the public and private security sectors, and a client of recorded future .
it helps us keep track of travel routes of high - level decision - makers ,
says felix juhl, a senior partner .
a state visit by a high - ranking politician may be followed by specific corporate activities .
running predictive tests on data from january 2009 to january 2011, recorded future showed that its top decile has a beta (a measure of risk in portfolio) of 1. 08 - - fairly low - - and a statistically significant annualised continuous alpha (a risk - adjusted measure of active return on investment) of + 16 per cent. the bottom two deciles had a high beta (1. 37 and 1. 34, respectively) but with statistically significant negative alphas, at - 42 per cent and - 26 per cent annually .
constructing hedged portfolios out of the securities in these deciles provides some compelling trading strategies ,
says evan sparks, an analyst at recorded future .
the evidence is mounting that edward snowden and his journalist allies have helped al qaeda improve their security against nsa surveillance. in may, recorded future, a predictive analytics web intelligence firm, published a persuasive timeline showing that snowden’s revelations about nsa’s capabilities were followed quickly by a burst of new, robust encryption tools from al - qaeda and its affiliates :
just because google and in - q - tel have both invested in recorded future doesn' t mean google is suddenly in bed with the government. of course, to google' s critics – including conservative legal groups, and republican congressmen – the obama administration and the mountain view, california, company slipped between the sheets a long time ago .
that' s the good news. the not quite so good news is that to really make this tool sing you need to spend some time with it. to make that painless, recorded future sends daily emails after you sign on for the first time telling you what to do next. in less than a week you' re an expert .
overall, we see this tool as a
must have
for any serious threat analyst. pricing is variable depending on configuration. in addition to the basic system, recorded future can integrate with a variety of third - party devices, such as siems, and services such as maltego. it has a dedicated service for addressing the dark web .
the investment arms of the cia and google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time – and says it uses that information to predict the future .
recorded future has been around since 2008, but it' s been getting more attention in recent years. when the company first launched, it considered itself an intelligence platform for anyone trying to get an idea of what' s going on in the world. it wanted to be the go - to automated intelligence platform for any operation big or small .
that' s primarily why the global air transport technology company sita uses recorded future. sita provides the backend it and communications technologies for nearly all aspect of air travel, and its customers consist of airlines, airports, and even governments. big players in the airline industry are frequently facing cyber threats, so it needed a way to analyze potential attacks .
based on the analysis of the recorded experts conducted through the reverse engineering of the encryption application used by the member of al - qaeda, the groups aren’t using home - brew encryption .
that' s one of several hypothetical cases recorded future runs in its blog devoted to intelligence analysis. but it' s safe to assume that the company already has at least one spy agency' s attention. in - q - tel doesn' t make investments in firms without an
end customer
ready to test out that company' s products .
the rise in web - based, or cloud - based, analytic capabilities will have a significant influence on the future of arms control monitoring and the role of citizen involvement .
hamza bin laden has recorded four audio messages - - all in the last two years. ali soufan believes the similarities with his famously charismatic father could help hamza unite and inspire the jihadi movement .
this report should have said that in - q - tel has invested in the firms recorded future and reversing labs. as npr ombudsman edward schumacher - matos notes, in - q - tel is
a quasi - government venture capital fund that publicly invests in young high - tech companies on behalf of the cia and other partner intelligence agencies .
record future and reversing labs are among the companies in - q - tel has invested in. you can read schumacher - matos' critique here :
attacking npr as a shill for government intelligence .
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because recorded future takes sources from all over the internet, rather than a particular data set ,
the data is not so nice
.
we could have built a perfect data set around pfizer, say, or barack obama ,
says ahlberg .
it' s harder then to think of the big picture. so we tried to make this ambitious .
recorded future currently uses two separate algorithms, one proprietary, one licensed, to analyse language; the staffers in gothenburg are tweaking them continually to see which works better. but the result is that recorded future knows who nicolas sarkozy is, say: that he' s the president of france, he' s the husband of carla bruni, he' s 1. 65m tall in his socks, he travelled to deauville for the g8 summit in may. if you google
president of france
, you' ll get two wikipedia pages on
president of france
then
nicolas sarkozy
. useful, but google doesn' t know how the two, sarkozy and the presidency, are actually related; it' s just searching for pages linking to the terms .
recorded future concluded that multiple players will rise to prominence regionally, that al - qaeda could split around al - zawahiri, and that al - qaeda sees advantage to be taken in the arab pro - democracy protests. a couple of months later, al - zawahiri was confirmed, although experts were sceptical about whether he could unite the membership in saudi arabia and the gulf states behind him .
but it should go without saying that this proves nothing about causation; it is a basic logical principle that “a precedes b” is not evidence that “a caused b. ” the original recorded future report literally did nothing more than assert that there were visible encryption improvements from al - qaeda that post - dated the first snowden story, and then, based on no evidence, just asserted the causal link .
in damage control mode, snowden’s defenders first responded to the recorded future analysis by pooh - poohing the terrorists’ push for new encryption tools. bruce schneier declared that the change might actually hurt al qaeda: “i think this will help us intelligence efforts. cryptography is hard, and the odds that a home - brew encryption product is better than a well - studied open - source tool is slight. ”
for example, punching the word
protest
into the dashboard of his software product pulled up a real - time map of areas around the world where conversations about future protests were taking place .
as it turns out, recorded future and reversing labs discovered that al - qaida didn' t just tinker at the edges of its seven - year - old encryption software; it overhauled it. the new programs no longer use much of what' s known as
homebrew ,
or homemade algorithms. instead, al - qaida has started incorporating more sophisticated open - source code to help disguise its communications .
another way is to examine the next two weeks of a particular business' s future and look for certain events. one is insiders selling stock. you may think this would be a good time to sell; in fact, insiders often sell just after stocks have already peaked. so recorded future looks for data that can be combined with this knowledge. if an insider sells stock after a management lay - off, stock falls on average 1. 5 per cent. expand this event to a whole market and
you have 2, 000 events within 2011 ,
says ahlberg .
by turning it into a big data screen, i have created my own skewed roulette wheel i can consistently bet on .
chris malloy is an associate professor at harvard business school who specialises in behavioural finance. he' s played with recorded future' s data :
i haven' t seen anything with that ability. it' s pretty neat - - no one' s doing that. the predictability is certainly good .
in response to the snowden’s revelations, members of a terrorist group of al - qaeda have started using alternative encryption mechanisms to avoid the adoption of alleged flawed cryptographic algorithms debated in the last months. the threat intelligence company, recorded future, has published a detailed report to demonstrate that members of al - qaeda have adopted new encryption applications for the first time, the firm also linked the event to the snowden revelations .
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critically, even if one wanted to accept recorded future’s timeline as true, there are all sorts of plausible reasons other than snowden revelations why these groups would have been motivated to develop new encryption protections. one obvious impetus is the august 2013 government boasting to mcclatchy (and the daily beast) that the state department ordered the closing of 21 embassies because of what it learned from an intercepted “conference call” among al qaeda leaders :
on april 1, 2009, a few months after ahlberg and truvé began testing this combination, ahlberg met rich miner, the co - creator of the android mobile operating system (with andy rubin) and a partner at google ventures, at the starbucks on harvard square, massachusetts. miner was impressed :
we believed there was predictive power in the information contained in the web ,
he says .
if you can organise that information temporally, then you can look at past and present, and infer things from the future. that' s pretty unique so far from recorded future .
the cia thought so, too .
the company is called recorded future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents – both present and still - to - come. in a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine
goes beyond search
by
looking at the' invisible links' between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events .
we’re taking on this subject in much more depth jointly with the liquid newsroom during the next several weeks. in the meantime, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on what other angles are worth exploring: more on ties to ows or looking at the internal politics of 15 - m or the shifts in media coverage? you can check out the movimiento 15 - m report live in recorded future to follow along just as we are doing .
you can explore the past, present, and predicted future of almost anything in a matter of seconds. our analysis tools facilitate deep investigation to better understand complex relationships, resulting in actionable insights for threat intelligence teams .
no wonder that there is so much information available. recorded future claims to have the world' s largest saas platform targeting over 750, 000 sources, including forums, paste sites, blogs and social media, over 30 threat feeds, a tor collection with hundreds of new pages added daily, code repositories and technical collections. it is a prodigious resource. all of this comes from over seven years of collecting. that also gives a solid historical picture as well .
russell, as noted, is young. so maybe he didn' t realize that he was taking the prank war too far by coaxing young into admitting infidelity with a 19 - year - old girl he met at a club while russell surreptitiously recorded. live and learn !
the thing that is most impressive about recorded future is the breadth and depth of their coverage. the landing page at first blush is way too busy but at second blush it magically organizes itself and makes perfect sense. what starts out looking like a big, disorganized table really is a set of five very well - organized columns that let you drill down into attackers, methods, targets, operations and indicators. you can scroll down each of these columns, pick something of interest and drill further to get a lot of underlying information .
i tried warning my fellow american citizens about this issue, but they did not listen to me. i may be only ninteen years old, but i know alot about my country, what it is becoming, and what will be become in the future .
in sum, recorded future is a cia - dependent company devoted to spreading pro - government propaganda, no matter how absurd. among its lowlights is its boasting of how it monitored media coverage of occupy wall street, whereby it claimed to detect iran’s “growing influence” over that coverage: “we recently tweeted a shared link showing coverage and gaining online momentum for the occupy wall street movement. when we look more carefully at influencers in this discussion using our influencer map, we find that iran press tv is the second largest influencer after the us media! ”
the first generation of search engines, such as lycos and alta vista, used traditional text search to deliver web pages, deploying their own algorithms, but essentially looking at individual documents in isolation. google changed this in 1998. its pagerank algorithm analysed the links between web pages, promoting those that had more links pointing to them from other sites. recorded future is part of the third generation: instead of explicit link analysis, it examines implicit links - - what it calls
invisible links
between documents that refer to the same entities or events .
ahlberg is more willing to talk about how recorded future is being used in finance .
if you take our momentum score, and look across s & p 500 companies, can you predict the liquidity or the stock volume of those companies over time ?
asks ahlberg .
it turns out you can .
stock that is being talked about and is in investors' attention is, of course, more likely to be traded :
it' s much easier to prove volume than direction, whether a stock is going up or down .
so recorded future takes momentum and combines it with sentiment - - whether a company is mentioned in a positive light - - and derives a score. taking these news bursts across the s & p 500, it can sort them into ten different groups, from high to low .
then you say, every day,' i am going to own what is in the top and short what is in the bottom.' you are making lots of small picks on a daily basis - this strategy turns over the portfolio 63 per cent every day .
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so, recorded future is a company that strips out from web pages the sort of who, what, when, where, why — sort of who’s involved, you know, where are they going, what kind of events are they going to. and the idea is to find hidden links between actors that might not necessarily have visible links between them. so, for example, if i’m going to aruba and there happens to be, i don’t know, you know, a terrorism conference in aruba, perhaps i’m going to that terrorism conference. that’s sort of the idea .
the recorded future “report”—which was actually nothing more than a short blog post —is designed to bolster the year - long fear - mongering campaign of u. s. and british officials arguing that terrorists would realize the need to hide their communications and develop effective means of doing so by virtue of the snowden reporting. predictably, former nsa general counsel stewart baker promptly seized on the report (still concealing the firm’s cia connections from readers) to argue in the washington post that “the evidence is mounting that edward snowden and his journalist allies have helped al - qaeda improve their security against nsa surveillance. ”
recorded future is an internet technology company founded in 2009 , based in somerville , massachusetts , united states , and gothenburg , sweden , specializing in real-time threat intelligence . recorded future organizes the entire web for analysis so information security teams can stay ahead of cyber attacks . in october 2015 , recorded future announced a program called omni that delivers their data to third-party platforms like splunk , hp arcsight , ibm qradar , rsa archer , and maltego . 
recorded future is an internet technology company founded in 2009, based in somerville, massachusetts, united states, and gothenburg, sweden, specializing in real-time threat intelligence. recorded future organizes the entire web for analysis so information security teams can stay ahead of cyber attacks. in october 2015, recorded future announced a program called omni that delivers their data to third-party platforms like splunk, hp arcsight, ibm qradar, rsa archer, and maltego.
recorded future is an internet technology company founded in 2009, based in somerville, massachusetts, united states, and gothenburg, sweden, specializing in real-time threat intelligence. recorded future organizes the entire web for analysis so information security teams can stay ahead of cyber attacks. in october 2015, recorded future announced a program called omni that delivers their data to third-party platforms like splunk, hp arcsight, ibm qradar, rsa archer, and maltego.