The National Security Agency (NSA) has never claimed to have stopped even one single terrorist attack anywhere with the help of its controversial wide net data collection that made Edward Snowden famous in the summer of 2013, but that hasn’t stopped a couple of up-and-coming companies from trying to convince government entities charged with protecting the American people its the method of the future.

Take one of the organizations, called Predata, which is on the cusp of doing biz with the Pentagon. In a recent Defense One piece, they flashed a light on a video they say can predict ISIS terror attacks throughout the globe — because it’s something their fighters queue up to get all sorts of jacked up. Like a high school football team blaring “Welcome to the Jungle” before they take the field or a big boy saying “GRACE!” real loud before he goes for four helpings of turkey and mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving dinner.

Scott T. Crino, one of the suits at Predata, equates it to “listening to AC/DC before weight lifting.”

It’s called “Black Flags of Islam and Imam Mahdi” and it happens to be the clip directly below this graph:

But Predata and its competitor, Recorded Future (a company currently working for the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]) say it’s not just videos that can serve as that dark and potentially violent canary in a coal mine. It’s also social media and “user-generated” sites, like Wikipedia and the like.

But are they correct in directing the proverbial magnifying glass on this data? Or does it sometimes show a ripple, but not where the tsunami wave is headed?

Gizmodo writer Matt Novak asks this fantastic question on the enigmatic subject:

The question then becomes: what you do with this information? If you know that ISIS fighters are planning an attack but have no indication of where or how, what good is the information? I guess that’s the Intelligence Community’s puzzle for the latter half of the 2010s.

Perhaps the agencies will link it to other data that can better hone in on where an attack might take place? Maybe with enough signals (this being one of them) they can wipe away the noise and get a clearer picture of ISIS and their demonic intentions?