Lone wolf terrorists pose a large threat to modern society. The current ability to identify and stop these kinds of\r\nterrorists before they commit a terror act is limited since they are hard to detect using traditional methods. However,\r\nthese individuals often make use of Internet to spread their beliefs and opinions, and to obtain information and\r\nknowledge to plan an attack. Therefore there is a good possibility that they leave digital traces in the form of weak\r\nsignals that can be gathered, fused, and analyzed.\r\nIn this article we present an analysis method that can be used to analyze extremist forums to detect digital traces of\r\npossible lone wolf terrorists. This method is conceptually demonstrated using the FOI Impactorium fusion platform.\r\nWe also present a number of different technologies which can be used to harvest and analyze pieces of information\r\nfrom Internet that may serve as weak digital traces that can be fused using the suggested analysis method in order to\r\ndiscover possible lone wolf terrorists.
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