The Army’s 304th Military Intelligence Battalion recently produced a presentation entitled, “ al Qaida-Like Mobile Discussions & Potential Creative Uses”. The presentation has some interesting information regarding, ‘Pro Terrorist Propoganda Cell Phone Interfaces”, mobile phone target surveillance, “Voice Changers for Terrorist Telephone Calls” and finally, “Potential for Terrorist use of Twitter”. This last topic has [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Twit or Tweet
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism, Uncategorized, tagged jaiku, terrorism, twitter, wired on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Money Launders in Action?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my many trawls across the internet I’ve come across a very interesting story here regarding the possible arrest and seize of Chinese Money Launder’s using an online game to supposedly transfer $38m in 18 months. Those of you who’ve kept track with this website will be very aware that this is something I’ve been predicting [...]
Virtual Forbidden City
Posted in News, tagged forbidden city, ibm on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
IBM and China’s Palace Museum have created an exact replica of the Forbidden City. It is an impressive piece of work but like so many virtual worlds – when I visit at least – are pretty much empty with not much going on. However, with the Forbidden City you can choose to take a guided [...]
Data Mining doesn’t work
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism, tagged datamining, VHUMINT on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A report by the National Science Foundation suggests that datamining is not particularly effective when trying to identify possible terrorists. Here on CNET I have previously commented that virtual worlds in particular do not lend themselves to datamining attempts very well. Far better to develop practices and procedures that work effectively in gathering information within [...]
