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It was a revolutionary technology when it was deployed in Iraq. You had roadside bombs going off constantly. The workflow was: 1. Bomb goes off 2. Plane lan
by cameldrv 7y ago
It was a revolutionary technology when it was deployed in Iraq. You had roadside bombs going off constantly.
The workflow was:
1. Bomb goes off
2. Plane lands, disk packs taken off, loaded into computer
3. DVR type interface, zoom to the time/place where the bomb went off.
4. Rewind. Observe some guys messing around with something on the side of the road.
5. Draw a box around their truck.
6. Run the tape forward. Computer automatically tracks the truck. Observe where truck goes back to.
7. Run the tape backward. Observe where truck came from.
8. Kick down two doors that night.
9. Integrate this with your mobile phone tracker. Observe all phones that came to either of the two addresses within a time window.
10. See what other places these phones went to. Find places that are common to multiple bombings. Repeat.
11. You now have the leadership chain.
Roadside bombs essentially stopped being a problem. This was attributed to the "Anbar Awakening", but my belief is that it was essentially due to these two technologies.