Jihadica hits the nail on the head

Jihadica wrote the following

On May 10, 2008 Ekhlaas member mohanad57 posted a link to Encyclopedia of Modern U.S. Military Weapons in pdf format. Like most illicit material shared by Jihadis, the link takes you to an independent file sharing site (in this case, rapidshare.com). This keeps the forum managers from getting in trouble, reduces bandwidth consumption, ensures that files can be shared rapidly, and makes the links temporary. For all you jihadologists out there: If there is a download you want on a Jihadi forum, get it immediately – the link will stop working in a few days.

And keeps intelligence services on their toes, to boot. The digital mobility of jihadis, and other terrorist and insurgents, contrasts wildly with the atrophied institutional outlook and methods of those attempting to monitor their activities. This might be a slightly unfair criticism – the advantage is most definitely with he who acts first when it comes to utilising the web – but the point still stands.