Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
With all the comment surrounding the potential misuse of virtual worlds by terrorists there still remains an actual dearth of evidence regarding any actual terrorists discussing or using a virtual world. However, throughout 2007 there was a considerable amount of activity within Second Life relating to ‘White Hate’ groups. Following the opening of [...]
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism, News on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The Center For Social Cohesion in the UK has published a report titled ‘ The Virtual Caliphate: Islamic Extremists and their Websites’.
Download pdf here.
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism, tagged dark web on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
The excellent Dark Web project at Arizona Universities Artificial Intelligence Lab has recently completed research into the use of Web 2.0 media by International jihadi groups. While fascinating in some respects it also clearly demonstrates how traditional text-mining attempts to collect data can be applied to some Web 2.0 applications, but miss the mark with [...]
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
COUNTER-TERRORISM agents have launched an investigation into a multi-national terror threat made against an Australian using internet social networking website Facebook.
The first investigation of its kind was prompted by a death threat emanating from the Middle East against a Jewish woman and her family from an alleged member of the Iranian-backed terror outfit Hezbollah.
The woman [...]
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Terrorists rely on state-of-the-art techniques from the advertising industry to attract suicide bombers. Rather than broadcast, or use one big message to attract a huge audience, the extremists “narrowcast,” targeting small groups with specific messages that exploit their vulnerabilities. The internet – anonymous and decentralized, reaching the alienated who desperately seek some inspiration or goals [...]
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Mitch Wagner makes some very good points in this piece
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A report to congress from the ODNI outlines research being conducted into virtual worlds.
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
remember where you heard it first…..
Spies’ Battleground Turns Virtual
Intelligence Officials See 3-D Online Worlds as Havens for Criminals
By Robert O’Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 6, 2008; D01
U.S. intelligence officials are cautioning that popular Internet services that enable computer users to adopt cartoon-like personas in three-dimensional online spaces also are creating security vulnerabilities by opening [...]
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Does al-Qaeda need a Second Life?
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »
My latest thinking on terrorism and virtual worlds is posted over on the CT blog under the title of jihadinets.
