by nbrody | Apr 7, 2008 | Framing, Government, Media, Strategic Comm., Surveillance, technology, Terrorism 2.0
by Nicholas Brody Wikipedia is becoming a major source of news and reference information for the American public. A Pew internet poll found that 36% of online adults consult Wikipedia. That number jumps to 50% for college-educated adults. Among educational and...
by goodall | Feb 13, 2008 | Government, Media, Politics, Popular Culture, Surveillance, technology
By Bud Goodall Pardon my rant. I say that in advance but without apology. Today’s New York Times article about the United States Senate vote to approve President Bush’s plan to grant legal protection to telephone companies for cooperating with illegal...
by editor | Feb 9, 2008 | Surveillance, technology, Terrorism 2.0
by Steven R. Corman The Daily Princetonian reports an interview with computer scientist Jennifer Rexford who claims that more wiretapping can actually help the Bad Guys and make us less safe. How? By providing a system for them to hack: They can tap into an...
by editor | Jan 25, 2008 | PSYOPS, technology, Terrorism 2.0
Picking up on a MEMRI dispatch, Computerworld ran a story on a software package designed to help al Qaeda operatives put strong encryption on their files and messages sent over the Internet. The new encryption tool is called Mujahideen Secrets 2 and appears to be an...
by editor | Dec 20, 2007 | Media, PSYOPS, technology
by Steven R. Corman At a government workshop some time ago I head someone describe a new tool that was described as the “voice of Allah.” This was said to be a device that would operate at a distance and would deliver a message that only a single person...