Imagine 3 burner sim cards used by three individuals used to call each other with call durations of 5 seconds. Such a scenario would probably light up on the NS

Imagine 3 burner sim cards used by three individuals used to call each other with call durations of 5 seconds. Such a scenario would probably light up on the NSA's dashboard like a Christmas tree. In the investigation of the Hariri assasination such analysis was employed by painstakingly looking into millions of phone calls in Lebonan. If I remember correctly, the UN investigation team identified 4 rings each color coded (red, blue, yellow, and purple) each ring would only call phones in their ring and the ring leaders talked to each other. So you had nodes that talk to each other and one single node would talk to one other node outside of each group. They also correlated the timing of the calls and locations in relation to where the Hariri convoy was on the day of the assassination (eg. a green call made as Hariri left his palace.) I can't remember the details but the report was a very interesting read. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2089420,00.html http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2089420,00.htm... http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2010/11/19/f-rfa-macdonald-lebanon-hariri.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2010/11/19/f-rfa-macdonal...