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Tracking Terror In Tangled Web
via CBS - EFLLONDON, Aug. 17, 2004 (CBS) If the pen is mightier than the sword, the keyboard has become the new weapon in the war of terror, promoting it and fighting it. As CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips reports, sometimes, the intent is simply propaganda. Sometimes, deeper in the net, hidden within other sites, is something more sinister: sites advocating violence, perhaps even providing instructions and commands. One site, which pops up and then disappears regularly on servers around the world, shows Osama bin Laden and a map of Manhattan. It contains "red sites (that) appear to be identifying targets for being attacked," says Neil Doyle, a new kind of private detective. And what worries the freelance cyber-terrorist buster about the site, one of thousands he's discovered, are the numbers running across the page. "The repeated sequence at the top there and it's thought that, well, that does match up to a known al Qaeda cryptography method," says Doyle. Doyle believes the site's code could be a means of command and control. ...more... When the West becomes serious about terror, the Internet will become the best source of intel - and the easiest means of crippling jihadi communications. The Internet Death Penalty can be dealt to any domain, network, or ISP. The technology is easy (NAPs, Peering, etc.) - the will to coordinate and execute is all that's lacking. Posted by: .com 2004-08-19 |
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