Reports indicate that when authorities cut the cable feeds to the hotels where terrorists in Mumbai held over 200 hostages, they began relying on their BlackBerrys to watch the world react to their heinous acts.

Indian commandos were surprised to find the phones in the terrorists’ rucksacks. It makes sense, considering terrorist networks have been known to use the internet and cellphones for communication and organization. This is certainly a scary development though. More news as it becomes available.

Computer and behavioral scientists at the University of Buffalo are developing a system that studies faces, voices, bodies and other biometrical data to predict terrorist intentions.

"The goal is to identify the perpetrator in a security setting before he or she has the chance to carry out the attack," says Professor Venu Govindaraju.

The project was recently awarded $800,000 by the National Science Foundation to create this system. "We are developing a prototype that examines a video in a number of different security settings, automatically producing a single, integrated score of malfeasance likelihood," adding that the system will incorporate machine "learning" capabilities, which will allow it to adapt over time.

"Human screeners have fatigue and bias, but the machine does not blink."