Terrorists using Twitter? I thought "gimme a break" about this article until I read the last paragraph
Here is the link directly to Wired.com:
Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists
I believe that terrorists can and will use any means for their acts of terrorism. But comparing them to activists at the Republican National Convention is absurd. The presentation from the Army states: "Twitter was recently used as a countersurveillance, command and control, and movement tool by activists at the Republican National Convention," the report notes. "The activists would Tweet each other and their Twitter pages to add information on what was happening with Law Enforcement near real time."
What they don't say is that with a bit of counter-intelligence of their own they could effectively "follow" the evil activists with their evil cell phones and find out "in real time" all of their evil actions. They could also find out where the best place to get coffee in Saint Paul, MN. If Osama bin Laden ever shows up on Twitter and you can't nab him you have bigger problems that a community of Twitterers.
That being said, this quote from the last paragraph sums it all up for me:
Steven Aftergood, a veteran intelligence analyst at the Federation of the American Scientists says:
If we have time to worry about 'Twitter threats' then we're in good shape. I mean, it's important to keep some sense of proportion.
