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2006-05-26 Iraq

Armed groups shun electronic media to counter U.S. high-tech surveillance

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Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-05-26 09:55|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A day late and a dollar short.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-26 10:42|| 2006-05-26 10:42|| Front Page Top

#2 What about the cellphone embedded in their car/truck engine computer?
What about their GPS?
What about their laptop?
What about their wristwatch?
What about their I-POD/MP3 Player?
What about any mass produced electronic stuff they may have?
What about the "Smart Dust" or "Pixie Dust" that might be on their clothes or bodies or car?
What about those KeyHole type sats looking down at them? You know. The ones that are basiclly a Galileo Telescope looking down.
What about the video cameras they use to record their gunsex?
What about the TV's and Radios? (Are they going to check each one for extra chips?)
What about their computer printers? (That one bit Saddam hard at the beginning of Gulf War I.)

They have a lot of stuff to have reason to get paranoid about. Perhaps they should just be nude and covered with room temperature mud. Only use fiberglass knives to attack. No guns. No rockets. No metal. (It would improve their survival rates. Of course when they run into our troops that way it would really suck.)

Oh, even if it is "clean" electronics it will leak something. That can give them away.

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-26 10:57|| 2006-05-26 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Forcing them off the network is almost as good as listening in. I predict a steep rise in the price of homing pigeons.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-05-26 11:24|| 2006-05-26 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Then we'll get PETA on the case.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-05-26 11:57|| 2006-05-26 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 "One if by land, two if by sea" just don't cut it the 21st century.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-05-26 12:43|| 2006-05-26 12:43|| Front Page Top

Yes jihadi's, we are listening...

Posted by Gromosh Elminegum5705 2006-05-26 13:48|| 2006-05-26 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 How do you say "one ringy-dingy" in Arabic?

Posted by Parabellum 2006-05-26 18:25|| 2006-05-26 18:25|| Front Page Top

#8 heh heh

Posted by 6 2006-05-26 18:26|| 2006-05-26 18:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh hell - this one is easy. Just turn the student loan people loose on them. They can find anybody.

Posted by GORT 2006-05-26 18:39|| 2006-05-26 18:39|| Front Page Top

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