I don't know how many of you keep up with the various tech blogs and news sites around there, but sometimes the stories of human stupidity make me realise why our industry works as well as it does:
Basic story from Wired here : Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists | Danger Room from Wired.com
According to this miltary report, which basically centers around mobile net access and usage of terrorists, Twitter and the Nokia 6210 are singled out.
6210: I fail to see how anyone could use a consumer grade GPSm anbd a bad one at that, for targeting. Any secure facility would simply not be listed, much in the same way as Area51 is the same dessert tile repeated ad nauseum on Google Earth.
Also, how many other phones come with GPS in them nowadays? Hell, Radioshack sells D.I.Y. GPS reciever kits.
And those Jihady wall papers... ZOMG! I bet they're $5.95 a month, forced recurring.
Twitter: You can't be serious.
Of all the social networking things out there, Twitter has got to be one of the least reliable, most useless, and certainly most frustrating.
Does anyone but an attention whore really use this service at all?
Surely, they'd be better off using coded and encrypted RSS feeds that have a mobile push script running. I mean, if these guys were as stupid as that, they'd be easier to catch... Or is just that the security forces tasked with keeping the rabble down are even more stupid, ala Harold & Kumar go to Guantanomo?
Surely for the scenarios listed it's simply a case of not being able to stop it, just like any other SMS for scenario 2, and about making sure military personel aren't so stupid as to give away operational details for scenario 3?
Sorry for the rant, but dumb shit like this just annoys me.
The internet was made by geeks working for the military. Where have all these intelligent people gone?
Basic story from Wired here : Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists | Danger Room from Wired.com
Oh lordy no! Help save us from those vegetarians! And those islamic communists from religiously atheistic communities!
According to this miltary report, which basically centers around mobile net access and usage of terrorists, Twitter and the Nokia 6210 are singled out.
6210: I fail to see how anyone could use a consumer grade GPSm anbd a bad one at that, for targeting. Any secure facility would simply not be listed, much in the same way as Area51 is the same dessert tile repeated ad nauseum on Google Earth.
Also, how many other phones come with GPS in them nowadays? Hell, Radioshack sells D.I.Y. GPS reciever kits.
And those Jihady wall papers... ZOMG! I bet they're $5.95 a month, forced recurring.
Twitter: You can't be serious.
Of all the social networking things out there, Twitter has got to be one of the least reliable, most useless, and certainly most frustrating.
Does anyone but an attention whore really use this service at all?
Surely, they'd be better off using coded and encrypted RSS feeds that have a mobile push script running. I mean, if these guys were as stupid as that, they'd be easier to catch... Or is just that the security forces tasked with keeping the rabble down are even more stupid, ala Harold & Kumar go to Guantanomo?
Surely for the scenarios listed it's simply a case of not being able to stop it, just like any other SMS for scenario 2, and about making sure military personel aren't so stupid as to give away operational details for scenario 3?
Sorry for the rant, but dumb shit like this just annoys me.
The internet was made by geeks working for the military. Where have all these intelligent people gone?
