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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: Govt. Afraid Of The Very Internet It Created....Or, someone |
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Yes, it appears someone wants to control how the internet is used. Is
her name Hillary? She wanted to get Matt D. for his use of the net
after he exposed her adulterous husband.
It seems that freedom is always under attack in America for some
reason. And usually, it is by some nit wit in government looking for
a way to justify his over paid, very cushy job.
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A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popul...
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.
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.
The posting of the report on the FAS site was reported Friday by Wired
magazine contributing editor Noah Shachtman on his national security
blog "Danger Room" at wired.com.
The report is not based on clandestine reporting but drawn from open
source intelligence known as OSINT.
A chapter on "Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter" notes that
Twitter members sent out messages, known as "Tweets," reporting the
July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets and activists at
the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide
information on police movements.
"Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human
rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious
communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others
to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader
audiences," the report said.
Hacktivists refers to politically motivated computer hackers.
"Twitter is already used by some members to post and/or support
extremist ideologies and perspectives," the report said.
"Extremist and terrorist use of Twitter could evolve over time to
reflect tactics that are already evolving in use by hacktivists and
activists for surveillance," it said. "This could theoretically be
combined with targeting."
The report outlined scenarios in which militants could make use of
Twitter, combined with such programs as Google Maps or cell phone
pictures or video, to carry out an ambush or detonate explosives.
"Terrorists could theoretically use Twitter social networking in the
US as an operation tool," it said. "However, it is unclear whether
that same theoretical tool would be available to terrorists in other
countries and to what extent."
Besides Twitter, the report examined the potential use by militants of
Global Positioning Systems and other technologies.
"GPS cell phone service could be used by our adversaries for travel
plans, surveillance and targeting," it said, noting that just such
uses have been discussed in pro-Al-Qaeda forums along with the use of
voice-changing software.
"Terrorists may or may not be using voice-changing software but it
should be of open source interest that online terrorist and/or
terrorist enthusiasts are discussing it," the report said. |
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Jim Alder
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: Govt. Afraid Of The Very Internet It Created....Or, some |
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Trace <tracey12_12@yahoo.com> wrote in news:140cb72f-6ec0-47e6-85f1-
b4a899c3dd75@g17g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
Subject: Govt. Afraid Of The Very Internet It Created....
I thought the internet was created by universities to exchange data.
| Quote: | Yes, it appears someone wants to control how the internet is used. Is
her name Hillary? She wanted to get Matt D. for his use of the net
after he exposed her adulterous husband.
It seems that freedom is always under attack in America for some
reason. And usually, it is by some nit wit in government looking for
a way to justify his over paid, very cushy job.
--------------------------
A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popul...
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.
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.
The posting of the report on the FAS site was reported Friday by Wired
magazine contributing editor Noah Shachtman on his national security
blog "Danger Room" at wired.com.
The report is not based on clandestine reporting but drawn from open
source intelligence known as OSINT.
A chapter on "Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter" notes that
Twitter members sent out messages, known as "Tweets," reporting the
July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets and activists at
the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide
information on police movements.
"Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human
rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious
communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others
to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader
audiences," the report said.
Hacktivists refers to politically motivated computer hackers.
"Twitter is already used by some members to post and/or support
extremist ideologies and perspectives," the report said.
"Extremist and terrorist use of Twitter could evolve over time to
reflect tactics that are already evolving in use by hacktivists and
activists for surveillance," it said. "This could theoretically be
combined with targeting."
The report outlined scenarios in which militants could make use of
Twitter, combined with such programs as Google Maps or cell phone
pictures or video, to carry out an ambush or detonate explosives.
"Terrorists could theoretically use Twitter social networking in the
US as an operation tool," it said. "However, it is unclear whether
that same theoretical tool would be available to terrorists in other
countries and to what extent."
Besides Twitter, the report examined the potential use by militants of
Global Positioning Systems and other technologies.
"GPS cell phone service could be used by our adversaries for travel
plans, surveillance and targeting," it said, noting that just such
uses have been discussed in pro-Al-Qaeda forums along with the use of
voice-changing software.
"Terrorists may or may not be using voice-changing software but it
should be of open source interest that online terrorist and/or
terrorist enthusiasts are discussing it," the report said.
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