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Israeli soldiers preach Facebook vigilantism
From the man who started the panic over Twitter supposedly causing panic, more panic over Facebook supposedly empowering holocaust deniers and causing terrorism.
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Now, there is one more reason for Israel to hate Facebook: not only does it empower Holocaust deniers, it also helps to promote terrorism...
How Gadgets Helped Mumbai Attackers
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The Mumbai terrorists used an array of commercial technologies -- from Blackberries to GPS navigators to anonymous e-mail accounts -- to pull off their heinous attacks.
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For years, terrorists and insurgents around the world have used off-the-shelf hardware and software to stay ahead of bigger, better-funded authorities. In 2007, former U.S. Central Command chief Gen. John Abizaid complained that, with their Radio Shack stockpile of communications gear, "this enemy is better networked than we are."
Mumbai Attack Aftermath Detailed, Tweet by Tweet
Social media coverage of the Mumbai attacks.
Report: Taliban Using Skype to Make Secure Phone Calls
Surprisingly enough, Fox News has a more skeptical view of the Taliban's supposed use of Skype.
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"The trouble with this technology is that it is easily available but devilishly hard to crack," the source told the Mail. "The technology can now be accessed on mobile Internet devices and the country's mobile-phone network is expanding rapidly."
It's true that Skype's encryption is impossible to crack. It's also true that Skype is available for Windows Mobile smartphones.
But it's doubtful that a Taliban commander standing by the side of a dirt road 20 miles outside of Kandahar is going to get much mobile broadband Internet access on his $600 phone.
More likely, any insurgents using Skype to evade Western ears are sitting in front of regular old PCs, using fixed lines to route calls over the Internet.
Taliban using Skype phones to dodge MI6
Article from the Daily Mail on Taliban use of Skype as a way to avoid interception of phone calls.
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Taliban fighters targeting British troops in Afghanistan are using the latest ‘internet phones’ to evade detection by MI6, security sources said last night.
Skype, a popular piece of consumer software that allows free calls to be made over the web, has been adopted by insurgents to communicate with cells strung out across the country.
Unlike traditional mobile calls, which can be monitored by RAF Nimrod spy planes, Skype calls – the commercial application of a technology called Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) – are heavily encrypted.
Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists
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Could Twitter become terrorists' newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks.
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The report is roughly divided into two halves. The first is based mostly on chatter from Al-Qaeda-affiliated online forums.
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Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers
Totally unrelated to the content of this article....BUT...why can't AFP either 1) link to the document on the FAS site themselves or 2) at least link to the Wired "Danger Room" post that links to the document?!? If they can link to wired.com, then they should be able to link to any other thing on the web. Of course...they are not, apparently, able to link to Wired.com, beause when I click the link I just get an error message. So then the question becomes, why is it that the AFP has not figured out how hyperlinking works??
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A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-changing software as potential terrorist tools.
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The report by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion, posted on the website of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), examines a number of mobile and web technologies and their potential uses by militants.
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On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for McCain
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Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market's downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America's economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents.
And at least some of its supporters think Sen. John McCain is the presidential candidate best suited to continue that trend.
New media plan to combat Taleban
An idea in the UK about using short cell phone films as a way of countering Taliban propaganda.
The Online Hunt for Terrorists
About recent efforts by U.S. intel agencies and academics researchers to conduct counter-terrorism, intel-gathering operations on the net.
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Terrorists don't use the Internet solely to recruit members, spread their ideology, and raise funds for their activities. They also use it to conduct their own internal debates, creating a rich pool of information for analysis by counterterrorist groups.
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