Could Twitter become terrorists' newest killer app?...
For years, American analysts have been concerned that militants would take advantage of commercial hardware and software to help plan and carry out their strikes. Everything from online games to remote-controlled toys to social network sites to garage door openers has been fingered as possible tools for mayhem.
[From Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists | Danger Room from Wired.com]
This recent presentation -- put together on the Army's 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and found on the Federation of the American Scientists website -- focuses on some of the newer applications for mobile phones: digital maps, GPS locators, photo swappers, and Twitter mash-ups of it all.
(Says one commenter:
"If terrorists have actually found something Twitter is good for, they're doing way better than the rest of us.")
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