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{{Short description|System to profile different categories of terrorist attacks}}

{{dablink|For other terms, see [[Karnak (disambiguation)]].}}

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'''Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context''' ('''KARNAC''') is a system being developed in the [[United States]] for use in [[offender profiling|profiling]] different categories of [[terrorism|terrorist]] [[List of terrorist incidents|attacks]] to determine the components of possible future terrorist incidents.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kupchinsky |first=Roman |date=2008-04-08 |title=World: Predicting Terrorist Attacks |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1062184.html |access-date=2024-01-28 |work=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Graham-Rowe |first=Duncan |date=2001-10-02 |title=Intelligence analysis software could predict attacks |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1368-intelligence-analysis-software-could-predict-attacks/ |access-date=2024-01-28 |magazine=[[New Scientist]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2001-10-15 |title=Big brother gaining too much support |url=https://mndaily.com/229891/uncategorized/big-brother-gaining-too-much-support/ |access-date=2024-01-28 |work=[[The Minnesota Daily]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2007-03-11 |orig-date=December 2001 |title=The Surveillance Society |url=http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/surveillance.html?pg=3 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311020431/http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/surveillance.html?pg=3 |archive-date=2007-03-11 |access-date=2005-05-11 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |volume=9 |page=3 |language=en-US |issue=12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Singer |first=P. W. |url=https://archive.org/details/wiredforwarrobot0000sing_y3l7/mode/2up?q=%22Knowledge+Aided+Retrieval+in+Activity+Context%22 |title=Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century |publisher=[[Penguin Press]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-59420-198-1 |___location=New York}}</ref>

'''KARNAC''' is an acronym for Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context; it is a system being developed in the [[United States]] for use in profiling different categories of terrorist attacks to determine the components of possible future terrorist incidents.

Information for KARNAC is generally to be derived from structured, semi-structured and unstructured databases[[database]]s. This would include information derived from e.g.[[Overview of gun laws by nation|gun registrations]], [[driver's licenceslicense]]s, residential and [[criminal recordsrecord]]s, as well as the [[Internet]], newspapers[[newspaper]]s and county records. For example, the system might raise an alert if someone attempted to buy components for [[bomb]] making, [[Car rental|hired a car]] and [[Renting|rented a hotel room]] near the [[White House]].

== References ==

For example the system might raise an alert if someone attempted to buy components for bomb making, hired a car and rented a hotel room near the [[White House]].

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The system can have profound implications for civil liberties, however events such as the [[Oklahoma City bombing]] and the [[September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack]] have indicated the need for an effective mechanism for anticipating terrorist atrocities. But tests of current systems show that they generate an extraordinary number of [[false-positive]] events.

==Trivia==

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* The acronym KARNAC is probably a reference to a popular recurring character on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson's'' [[Carnac the Magnificent]] who had somewhat dubious [[prognostication]] abilities.

==External links==

* [http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/surveillance.html?pg=3 ''Wired'' article]

[[Category:Terrorism2001 introductions]]

[[Category:Counterterrorism in the United States]]

[[Category:Counterterrorism intelligence]]

[[Category:Terrorism databases]]

[[Category:United States Department of Homeland Security]]

[[Category:Terrorism]]

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