InfoBore 6
Terrorists Recruit for Cyberwar, Official Says - AP
Cyberbullying Legislation: Why Education is Preferable to Regulation – Berin Szoka & Adam Thierer, Technology Liberation Front
Kids Martyrdom Videos Get New Sophistication, Huge Audience – IPT @ Counterterrorism Blog
Spacebook Brings Secure Social Networking to NASA – John S. Monroe, Federal Computer Week
Vigil for Iran in Second Life – Roderick Jones, MetaSecurity
Google Maps Track Iran Protests – Kim Zetter, Threat Level
Urban Screens as Skeuomorph – Nicholas Nova, Pasta & Vinegar
Expert: Cybersex to Go Mainstream – Dusan Writer
Today’s Coolness Award goes to: Photo of the Day – Stunning Volcano Eruption Seen From Space – Thoughts of a Technocrat
Today’s Crassness Award goes to: Gordon Brown – Twitter Would Have Stopped Rwandan Genocide -The Guardian
great edition
‘You cannot have Rwanda again…right. Because Internet penetration is so high in that part of the world. In Darfur too.
True. My experience with central African internet has been frustrating at best. In Rwanda, they use those weird French keyboards as well. Anyway, that’s irrelevant. Why Brown’s a numpty is that he conveniently forgets that the media did report from Rwanda, even prior to the genocide, but the rest of the world chose to do very little about it. He might be right about it being harder to perpetrate but at the end of the day it’s highly unlikely that internet coverage would have prevented it. In fact, it might have made it worse, if that were possible. Unable to mobilise additional Western troops (additional to pre-existing MONUC, that is), the US prez (for it would have to be him) might have coerced any available neighbouring nation to effectively invade on their behalf. Imagine the mess if CAR or Uganda had got officially involved. Mind you, look at the region now.
What might have happened is that MONUC would not have been drawn down in the way they were, principally by the Belgians scarpering at the first hint of casualties (more than a hint really, quite a few died). Pressure for them to stay would have been huge, and perhaps lives would have been saved.
Cheers, dude. I watched that video clip you sent. That kid is never, ever going to live that down (assuming it’s for real). For everyone else, here’s what happens when Mommy unregisters her teenage son from World of Warcraft: http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/06/22.
have you been watching this case: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Terror-suspect-searched-Keira-Knightley-s-feet-web/article-1101878-detail/article.html
I was aware of it but hitherto naive as to the extent of Ibrahim’s foot fetish. Expect more ‘AQ are Child Molesters’-type headlines…
While the press may over-react, I feel obliged to mention that it has happened more than once that a jihadi has been found to be collecting child porn in addition to jihadi snuff films. I suppose the relevant question is: do they get into that to a greater or lesser extent than the general population? Otherwise it’s merely a curiosity, or perhaps something that can be used as leverage in order to get cooperation, through threat of exposure and/or prosecution.
Agreed. It would be fascinating to know whether there is a higher predilection for such material amongst guys who, as you say, like their snuff too. I suspect the sample population is too small for any meaningful statistical analysis but I’ve wondered before whether there might be any correlation there.
this article seems to suggest taht it might in fact be something that is also being used as an operational thing: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4959002.ece
I also am unsure whether Andrew Ibrahim can be grouped with others – he seems like a bit of an oddball to say the least…
I remember that article. It also mentions the way in which ultra-right wingers have been found with child abuse images on their hard drives. I can’t find it right now but I know that Searchlight have consistently brought this to public attention. Gilleard was certainly not the only one. In their case, it seems their sexual proclivities were indeed in this direction, as opposed to the more operational emphasis accorded to ‘jihadis’.
As for Ibrahim, yes, it seems there was definitely ‘something up’ with the state of his mind.
thanks for the link mate =)
No problem. Yours was the first place I saw the photo prior to it appearing everywhere.