How to spot a smuggler

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2940, 2013, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Spotting illicit cargo among the billions of tonnes of goods that move through the world's ports each year is about to get easier, thanks to machine intelligence. Smuggling hit the news in July, when a North Korean ship, the Chong Chon Gang, was stopped in Panama as it transported arms from Cuba. The weapons were hidden underneath 200,000 bags of sugar. The sugar and "2000 empty polyethylene bags" were the only items listed in the cargo manifest, which should have aroused suspicion. Here, Hodson talks about how data-mining software can comb through shipping documents to find suspicious-looking cargo.