"One of the most alarming facts is that the Flame cyberattack campaign is currently in its active phase, and its operator is consistently surveilling infected systems, collecting information and targeting new systems to accomplish its unknown goals," Alexander Gostev, chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab, said on the company's Web site.
But so does the vague feeling among the frustrated, saddened people that something still has to be done and some statement needs to be made against the invasion of our freedom from unknown groups with unknown goals and even less well understood ideologies.
"To introduce a brand-new crime novelist like this, someone who is unknown, our goal was to sell 20,000 copies, but we thought 10,000 would be marvelous," Eva Gedin, Larsson's editor at the Swedish publishing house Norstedts, told me recently.
Given partial information about an unknown surface, its goal is to construct, to the extent possible, a compact representation of the surface model.
As the patient-specific native orientation was unknown, an arbitrary goal of glenoid position was to place the glenoid perpendicular to the plane of the scapula.
The molecular mechanism of action of E4 is essentially unknown, and the goal of this study was to define the nuclear/transcriptional actions versus the membrane/rapid actions in comparison to E2.
An accelerated convergence of the decision-making process to the unknown results (fuzzy goals).
For many self-trackers, the goal is unknown.
Mr. Bernanke, by comparison something of an unknown, arrived with the goal of "depersonalizing" Fed policy.
Apparently unknown to McNamara, the goal in Saigon was not to investigate Schell's allegations but to discredit his reporting and do everything possible to prevent publication of the material.
