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| Terror Networks |
| Tracking Terror In Tangled Web |
| 2004-08-19 |
| via CBS - EFL LONDON, Aug. 17, 2004 (CBS) If the pen is mightier than the sword, the keyboard has become the new weapon in the war of terror, promoting it and fighting it. As CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips reports, sometimes, the intent is simply propaganda. Sometimes, deeper in the net, hidden within other sites, is something more sinister: sites advocating violence, perhaps even providing instructions and commands. One site, which pops up and then disappears regularly on servers around the world, shows Osama bin Laden and a map of Manhattan. It contains "red sites (that) appear to be identifying targets for being attacked," says Neil Doyle, a new kind of private detective. And what worries the freelance cyber-terrorist buster about the site, one of thousands he's discovered, are the numbers running across the page. "The repeated sequence at the top there and it's thought that, well, that does match up to a known al Qaeda cryptography method," says Doyle. Doyle believes the site's code could be a means of command and control. ...more... When the West becomes serious about terror, the Internet will become the best source of intel - and the easiest means of crippling jihadi communications. The Internet Death Penalty can be dealt to any domain, network, or ISP. The technology is easy (NAPs, Peering, etc.) - the will to coordinate and execute is all that's lacking. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #4 What OP said. Double. On the Internet and all the rest. |
| Posted by: too true 2004-08-19 3:47:03 PM |
| #3 Actually, the best thing to do, once we do figure out what the "other side" is doing with the Internet, is nothing. Let them continue, let them think their words go unseen, let them think their plots go undiscovered, let them think they're pulling one over on the "dumb Americans". Then let us continue, as the Navy did during World War II, and the United States did frequently during the Cold War, to use these snipits of information we do gather, and can use without disclosing that we "read their mail", to disrupt their groups, degrade their capabilities, and destroy their bases. Shutting them down will only drive them to use something else - something we may not discover until it's way, way too late. In the meantime, keep hammering them from every direction. That includes continuing to put the screws to Iran. In order to be more successful at that, we need to begin putting more pressure on Europe, especially France and Russia, to curb their dealings with the Ayatollahs. IF that means a much more serious embargo of French and Russian products, so be it. We've already proven that the actions of plain old American citizens can have far-reaching effects in dealing with ass-hat countries, far easier and with less political costs than having the government get involved. The Internet in general, and the blogosphere in particular, is a potent weapon, and we need to learn to use it with rapier-like precision. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-08-19 3:40:28 PM |
| #2 Lucky - You bet - Wretchard the Cat pointed me to it yesterday. Great read! I've got FoxNews on right now and the BS is hot 'n heavy from Skeery & Co. Can you imagine him as President? Can you picture him actually doing anything of substance? Even though he has some warts, and I had to eat a lot of crow to arrive at the conclusion (I was a Dementocrat / Independent, sigh), Bush is the only guy we have with stones and a valid vision, bro. All the marbles are on the table - and many (including here on RB) want to argue what shape / color the table should be, instead of supporting the only leader we have. Intellectual cowardice, emotional dysfunction, and zero ethicality, heh. Boggles. We're on our way to a truly bloody never-forget / never-forgive campaign - and well beyond. So much for dialog, debate, reasoning together, concensus, putting the public interests above petty partisanship... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-19 12:17:28 PM |
| #1 "When the west becomes serious about terror", sadly but true. Another big blow and maybe then. Dot, did you read Podhoretz WW4 piece? All I could think of was your "We finally have a president willing to fight." |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-08-19 11:58:39 AM |