If you’re over 50, all new technologies are used only for evil. Have you noticed the story on MSN about how Terrorists might use Twitter in part of an attack:
A U.S. Army intelligence report sent the media into overdrive the last few days with its pronouncement that terrorists might “Tweet” their way through an attack using the microblogging site Twitter. The Army says it “red-teamed” the possible use of Twitter, which means that a team of soldiers or analysts used Twitter to see if they could find weaknesses with the Army’s battle readiness.
Using Twitter to coordinate group efforts is not a new concept. Tweet-ups are a basic form of coordinated group action.
The obvious downside to planning your terrorist actions on Twitter are: they’re public. The obvious caveat: don’t believe everything you see on Twitter.
As an open platform, Twitter works as a two-edged sword. The best way to prepare the US Army for possible Terrorist Twitter use is to get very good ad using it themselves.
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Richard Millington 11.03.08 at 12:43 pm
I really find this one hard to swallow. Can you really imagine terrorists using as public as twitter?
@Terrorist1 - “RT: @BinLaden Everyone ready to blow up London”
@Terrorist2 - “Yup: See pictures on flickr http://tinyurl/2343”
@Terrorist1- “Just ate a bagel for lunch, yummy!”
@Terrorist2 - “Just about to get on plane to meet @terrorist1 in Heathrow”
@Terrorist3 - “Sitting in frontrow at #Terror2.0, @Binladen on next”
@Terrorist3 - #terror2.0 @Binladen says Twitter is future of terrorism, woot - shoutouts!”
@Terrorist1 - “Meeting @terrorist2 to blow up London tonight”
@Terrorist2 - “Excellent article on blowing up stuff: http://tinyurl.com/345gh”
@Terrorist1 - “bombs ready, see you at #hell”
Jason Preston 11.07.08 at 11:14 am
@Richard - LOL!