This week on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl and producer Shachar Bar-On acquired an early take a look at Memex, a robust new search engine developed by DARPA, the U.S. navy’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The inventor of Memex, Chris White, sat down with Stahl and Bar-On and defined how Memex works–and the way it may revolutionize regulation enforcement investigations.
“The internet is much, much bigger than people think,” White mentioned. “By some estimates Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo only give us access to around 5% of the content on the Web.” That leaves numerous room for dangerous actors to function freely within the shadows.
White says that Memex goes far past the realm of conventional search engines and provides regulation enforcement a robust new instrument to search the “dark web,” the place criminals purchase, promote, and promote within the unlawful weapons commerce and intercourse trafficking.
“The easiest way to think about Memex is: How can I make the unseen seen?” mentioned Dan Kaufman, director of the data innovation workplace at DARPA.
“Most people on the internet are doing benign and good things,” Kaufman mentioned. “But there are parasites that live on there, and we take away their ability to use the internet against us– and make the world a better place.”