Darpa wants code to spot 'anomalous behavior' on the job

Can software spot a cyberspy's tricky intentions, before he's started to help the other side? The way-out researchers at Darpa think so. They're planning a new program, "Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination" or "SMITE," that's not only supposed to "dynamically forecast" when a mole is about to strike. The code is also meant to flag "inadvertent" disclosures "by an already trusted person with access to sensitive information."

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