Most of us are fans of the Terminator, So there is something interesting somewhat relevant to that and the news is Skynet is a reality which is taking place in the real world besides the fictitious movie. But this reality based Skynet don’t wish to hold the whole planet by killing the whole human race like in the movie but in a form of a computerised program established by NSA acronym for the National Security Agency.Skynet basically deals with complex data extracted from different sources related to the different people having a possible connection with terrorist or with those doing relevant criminal activities in the world.
According to the power point slide leaked by Edward Snowden which was presented in 2012 NAS used the Skynet in order to trace the Ahmad Muaffa Zaidan designated as the chief of Al-Jazeera Islamabad Bureau being a fellow of Al-Qaida.By profession, Ziadan is a well versed Syrian journalist who worked a lot related to the full on coverage and reporting about all the events and news of various terrorist groups like the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.Doing such sort of tasks are not so simple as they sound in fact one has to take risks and to establish networks with the people involved in such activities in order to get on time and sometimes before time report. Zaidan on the basis of his skills not only did so, but he also took interviews of highlighted bodies of different terrorist groups including Osama Bin Laden who was owned by the Al-Qaeda.
The Skynet Programs being a computerized system gets some special properties of tracking locations and communication exchange in the suspected people or groups and those who act as a bridge between different groups.The Skynet highlighted the Zaidan having similar features like the members of al-Qaeda because of his networking with those people.
As far as basic functioning of Skynet is concerned it actually systemize the data from the telecom routers and detect different patterns like how much distance traveled by someone from one city to another within particular time duration, or number of calls of messages exchanged by someone among different period from particular place or time range .Tracking of all these time to time changes can help in the detection of relevant personal by using Skynet.So in this way the NSA is watching different susceptible people in the vicinity of Pakistan.
