Narus is working on a new application designed to connect the dots among billions of pieces of data on social networks.

"The new program, codenamed Hone, is designed to give intelligence and law enforcement agencies a leg up on criminals who are now operating anonymously on the Internet," writes PCWorld's Robert McMillan.

"In many ways, the cyber world is ideal for subversive and terrorist activities, said Antonio Nucci, chief technology officer with Narus," McMillan writes. "'For bad people, it's an easy place to hide,' Nucci said. 'They can get lost and very easily hide behind a massive ocean of legal digital transactions.'"

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