“Digital terrorism” isn’t a phrase one hears often. There might be good reason for that: it’s not abundantly clear what digital terrorism entails. Is it hacking into air traffic control to give dangerous instructions to pilots? Is it using YouTube to promote a violent, hateful cause? Is it setting up a Facebook group to give members a chance to voice a yea in favor of something offensive? Is it trolling comment areas and flaming an author?
Terrorists. In your closet, under your bed, on Twitter. And Army intelligence, your big brother, is watching closely. Be careful throwing the word “Hezbollah” around in your tweets.
Senator Joe Lieberman asked Google's CEO Eric Schmidt to do more about alleged terrorist videos made by al-Qaeda being posted on YouTube.
In an open letter sent earlier today to Eric Schmidt, Senator Joe Lieberman brought up the issue of terrorist-produced videos appearing on YouTube. On the YouTube Blog, corporate representatives have now responded.
When Queen Elizabeth's YouTube channel was unveiled, we thought it was great. A soon-to-follow channel from the British Foreign Office didn't seem like a waste. But there was a definite drop-off in the quality of ideas, and the latest thing - a sort of Internet anti-terror plan - is really raising some eyebrows.
When I was in the tenth grade, before anybody'd heard of the Internet except this geek buddy of mine and the geek buddies of his that he connected with like Matthew Broderick did in that movie by plugging his phone into this contraption (this buddy of mine now works for the NSA by the way), my geek-of-all-geeks friend showed me instructions on how to build a nuclear bomb.
It's comforting to know the previous Congressional idiots were replaced by fresh Congressional idiots from the other side of the political fence. Really? This is the best we can do?
New York politicians appear to be at odds over just how dangerous Google Earth might be; Assemblyman Mike Gianaris is asking Google to blur out images of “sensitive” sites, while Mayor Michael Bloomberg feels such efforts may not be the best use of time.
The good news is that the would-be terrorists targeting JFK airport weren't all that bright. The bad news is that they're smart enough to get their mapping information from Google Earth.
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