by admin | May 1, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Intelligence, Media, Terrorism 2.0
by Steven R. Corman CNN is re-reporting a story from Die Zeit about a treasure-trove of al-Qaeda documents and manuals found encrypted in pornographic videos. The encryption was done using a technique call steganography. The videos were found in the possession of...
by lundry | Feb 13, 2012 | Analysis, Indonesia, Media, Narrative, Popular Culture, Southeast Asia, Terrorism 2.0
by Chris Lundry Indonesian Islamist extremist supporters ar Rahmah posted a story today (2-13) on their website and Facebook page about the hacker group Anonymous’ plans for a cyber-attack on Israel. The story (here) links to the Anonymous YouTube video announcing...
by lundry | Nov 11, 2010 | Media, Sensemaking, State Dept., technology, Terrorism 2.0
by Cameron Bean Since November of 2006, the State Department has taken its public diplomacy efforts into the online arena of Arabic, Urdu, and Persian discussion boards. Heading this effort is the Digital Outreach Team (DOT). According to DOT member Muath Alsufy, the...
by editor | Nov 7, 2009 | Counterterrorism, Media, Research, Terrorism 2.0
by Steven R. Corman I ran across an interesting research article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Communication entitled “‘Carrying online participation offline’–Mobilization by radical online groups and politically dissimilar offline...
by editor | May 16, 2009 | Complexity, Counterterrorism, Strategic Comm., Terrorism 2.0
by Steven R. Corman Hi there. Long time, no blog. That’s in part because I was attending a conference entitled Strategic Communication for Combating Terrorism sponsored by the NATO Center of Excellence for Defense Against Terrorism in Ankara, Turkey. The...
by cheong | Mar 26, 2009 | Analysis, Identification, Media, technology, Terrorism 2.0
By Pauline Hope Cheong Two related white papers have generated fresh buzz about Internet radicalization in recent weeks. These papers are in substantial disagreement about the basic issue of how much of a force the Internet is in causing radicalization. This is a...