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Source: Dancho Danchev - Posted by Eric Lubow
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Very good article on various geopolitical issues related to the Middle East vs the West, and most importantly an overview of the current state of online jihad. Excluding webcasts, video howto's, and video games as a commodity in the big picture, what's left at the bottom line is easily accessible open source intelligence, and tactical warfare practices such as this one: "Some of the techniques of evasion are disarmingly simple. Rather than send emails, some jihadists simply write and save draft emails, storing them in an account with a password that's known to other members of the cell. Because they are never actually sent, they can't be detected by intelligence agencies."
Can you intercept an email that's never been sent? And what if a legitimate user's account end up as a dead box? Moreover, the article points out to the recently released Technical Mujahid magazine: "Raisman points to a recent publication by the al-Fajr group, another communications arm of al-Qaeda and its fellow travellers. He said it contained a very sophisticated manual on internet security, how to avoid hackers, secure personal files and ensure any computer that is captured is of little value to Western authorities."
Read this full article at Dancho Danchev
I found this article to be pure political propaganda- forcing a certain prejudiced view of the world where the main security threat to the world is "jihad" and "radical Islam against the West" and we all have to accept this political point of view as a given when reading the article. What then about the security threats posed by thousands of KKK and militant right-wing websites or the threat that powerful governments with advanced surveillance and control of the internet pose to internet security?
Please do not abuse Linusecurity.com subscription as a trojan for spreading your one-sided and paranoid political propaganda. |
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