From this article it would appear POET™(and their technology repertoire) has a good chance of helping to thwart any potential attacks ....provided that these new tools are made available to A:trained end-users(naturally) & B: these tools be used for the intent they are meant to be used for....

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war on terrorism
Tuesday, December 08, 2015 CST
Download picturesTHE MIL & AERO BLOG, 8 Dec. 2015. It's increasingly clear that technology has a huge role to play in countering radical Islamic terrorism like the attack in San Bernardino, Calif., last Dec. 2.

Silicon Valley companies, as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has suggested, certainly have a role to play in countering radical Islamic terrorism, but it doesn't stop with Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley certainly should bear the biggest burden in preventing terrorism.

We have a large, competent, and talented defense and homeland security industry in the United States and in allied countries that we need to encourage, nurture, and count on for the surveillance, cyber security, information technology, and special weapons and tactics that federal and local governments need to confront the terrorism threat.

Everyone in the defense and technology industries has something to contribute, with technologies ranging from electro-optics, integrated circuits, embedded computing, test and measurement, data storage, handheld and wearable computing, high-reliability connectors, to power electronics, and more.

On the leading edge of the war on terror will be cyber warfare and cyber security technologies. We'll see the day when terror attacks involve computer hackers attempting to take down power grids, disrupt the supply of water, hold up fuel deliveries, and perhaps even contaminate the food supply.

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Also on the front lines will be covert surveillance technologies like infrared sensors, motion detectors, low-power radar, and persistent-surveillance technologies that combine imaging and powerful digital signal processing to pinpoint threats as they unfold and head-off terrorists before they can inflict catastrophic damage.

Digital signal processing deserves a second mention here, because this is the enabling technology that distills actionable information in real time from a bottomless well of sensor data.