Social Media and Terrorism

Oh yawn. Yet another piece on how surprising it is that the bad guys know how to use telephones. Mercifully, this article at Homeland Security Today finishes up with a healthy injection of realism from Gaurav Mishra:

“Technology is technology. The good guys can use it; the bad guys can use it too,” Mishra told HSToday.us. “Sometimes the government is surprised when this happens. The government, for example, is surprised to find out that the terrorist had Blackberries? A Blackberry is Radio Shack technology. It’s not extremely high tech. So governments need to assume terrorists would have access to the technology at least that most people have access to if they don’t presume they have access to better technology.”