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'''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.

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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]].

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 aan proactiveeffective mechanism for anticipating terrorist atrocities. But tests of current systems show that they generate an extraordinary number of [[false-positive]] events.

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==Trivia==

* The acronym KARNAC is probably a reference to a popular recurring character on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]''; "Carnac the Magnificent" who would claim to use powers ofhad [[prognostication]] abilities.

==External links==