Downside To Twitter
'Twitter is great for grassroots organizing—Obama and McCain both use it to relay biddings to acolytes.
That same, real-time insta-blast networking quality would also make it a jee-golly-awesome organizing tool for terrorists, according to a draft Army intelligence report.
Mix Twitter with cellphones and you've got highly mobile, connected terrorists using the same tools you use to tell your friends about the zit on your butt that just won't go away.
There are three scenarios the Army is worried about, and one of them is genuinely scary.'
Twitter Delivers Death to America 140 Characters at a Time
That same, real-time insta-blast networking quality would also make it a jee-golly-awesome organizing tool for terrorists, according to a draft Army intelligence report.
Mix Twitter with cellphones and you've got highly mobile, connected terrorists using the same tools you use to tell your friends about the zit on your butt that just won't go away.
There are three scenarios the Army is worried about, and one of them is genuinely scary.'
Twitter Delivers Death to America 140 Characters at a Time
[Sidebar: I'm on Twitter as 'bonjourpeewee', 'natch.]
Labels: Military, Technology
posted by Big Daddy at
Friday, October 24, 2008
Denver
1 Comments:
Unfortunately every piece of technology out there can most likely be used against us. It’s all in how it’s applied. :(
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