It bears no relationship to phishing. The method has appeared recently in the news in the context of anti-terrorism activity: the aggregation of large amounts of data (in the terrorism context, by merging multiple public databases) then 'going through' the data looking for patterns or how to model the data without paying particular attention to any particular data bit - sort of like noticing that a list is arranged alphabetically but not making specific note of what the 17th item in the list is. I was wondering if you could Photoread / photoscan a large volumn of data then derive its pattern/shape without going through the activation process for specific data items. Like scanning a book on the solar system and coming up with Bodes law but not becoming aware of the specifics of Saturn's atmospheric composition...
