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US military intel scared of jihadi twits
A US MILITARY Intelligence report reckons Jihadi Twits using GPS and voice changing software pose a threat to national security.
A draft report [surely 'daft report' – Ed] compiled by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and posted on the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) website notes the "Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter".
To back up its cyber scaremongering theory, the report notes how effective 'tweets' were in trumping all major news sources for speed, reporting the July Los Angeles earthquake. Tweets were also apparently used by activists keeping track of police movements outside a Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.
As the report witters on, it notes, "Twitter is already used by some members to post and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives." It goes on to hypothesise that "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". This, the report frets, could be used for "targeting" when combined with programmes like Google Maps and mobile phone photos and videos.
The information was apparently bunged together after chatter on Islamic extremist websites noted the benefits of "using a mobile phone camera to monitor the enemy and its mechanisms" and how GPS functionality on a Nokia 6210 Navigator could be useful for "marksmanship, border crossings, and in concealment of supplies". Another site also apparently recommended using voice modifying software on cell phones when making operational phone calls.
So, something like, "Er… hello… this is Osama’s mum. Just wanted to let you know tea will be ready by 4pm Monday and will be so yummy, your tastebuds will literally explode”.
What a bunch of twits. µ
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The linked document from fas.org is more useful for terror than the "terrorist" sites the info was pulled from, since it combines everything nicely in one place. Thanks for posting! They even detail scenarios for terrorists, they took all the work out of it. Next thing they'll be giving them money and guns.... where is my conspiracy hat anyways?

Also, it seems they admit to pulling info from honeypots along with legitimate sites. So who know's maybe there are no terrorists, and it's only FBI agents setting up CIA agents and vise versa.
Conservatives that happily swallow any and every government agenda dangled in front of their terror-stricken minds need to gain a massive sense of perspective. An open, public form of communication is the last thing a covert, discrete terror network would use. A government body publicly saying this not only highlights the waste and stupidity of itself but the utter misguided and utterly uninformed judgement that lead us to the current situation we're in. Trying to justify idiotic reports like this by then talking about roadside bombs is sickening but a typical brainless conservative propaganda tactic.
Yes, that sounds almost as far fetched as terrorists using Microsoft flight sims to learn to fly aircraft so they can use them for terrorism, oh hold on, they did didn't they?
Sadly terrorists aren't as stupid and lacking in imagination as dumb liberal hacks, as anyone on the end of a mobile phone operated road side bomb would probably testify.
To be concerned about constantly changing tactics and surveillence techniques is not "scaremongering", it is realistic concern.

Keep scoffing and poking your fun at our intel, Barak. May you be on the next train...twit.
"Twitter is already used by some members to post and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives." 

So it's used by government then?

I wonder how long it'll take these governments to realise that terrorists are totally dependent on air, which they use to breath, and if they were to regulate it, like they seem to be intent on doing with everything else, they'd stop these terrorists dead in their tracks.