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09/30/2007: "Program examines language, identifies terrorist suspects"

That component, called Writeprint, helps combat the Web's anonymity by studying thousands of lingual, structural and semantic features in online postings. With 95 percent certainty, it can attribute multiple postings to a single author.

From there, Dark Web has the ability to track a single person over time as his views become radicalized.

The project analyzes which types of individuals might be more susceptible to recruitment by extremist groups, and which messages or rhetoric are more effective in radicalizing people.

[Are you sure you weren't guilty of a thought crime just now?]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/do-you-write-li.html