It doesn't make sense to me. If you're going to have secrets, why keep them out in the open? It's like this: Alice wants to know how to send money to buy explosives for Bob. Bob puts it on his website where everybody in the world can see it. Alice gets the information. Greg, the government, can see everything too. Bob changes the location of the webpage, telling all the members where the new location is. Greg goes to the new site because he's a member too. Bob doesn't really accomplish anything because Greg is always watching what he does, and Alice's friend Charlie can't find out where to send money because the web page is always changing locations and he has a crappy dialup connection and only checks his email once a week. Odds are they keep getting kicked off service providers because they're not very popular. It's like warez sites... they keep moving around too. There are better ways of keeping secrets than web pages. The whole idea behind the web is that you share information with people. In fact, you have to try to keep people out of the private parts of your web site. I just don't get it, I guess. It all sounds reactionary to me. Sure, people are going to put up sites talking about how they are feeling oppressed by the system because of their race. Sure they are going to have anti-american rhetoric. Sure they are going to call on everybody in their "movement" to make their own site. Traditionally, intelligence analysts overestimate what the intent and popularity of stuff like this is. It's because their job is to never underestimate anything. But planning any sort of military attack through a web site, and you've got to be kidding yourself. Encrypted mail would be a better method. Some sort of VPN would be a solution. But there is no substitute for getting together in one room and working out the details. --Mike "Searl, Ken" wrote: > > Militants wire Web with links to jihad > > > > By Jack Kelley, USA TODAY > > > > ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - One Web site urges Muslims to travel to Pakistan to > > "slaughter American soldiers." Another solicits donations to buy dynamite > > to "blow up Israeli Jews." A third shows new videotape of Osama bin Laden > > and promises film clips of American casualties in Afghanistan. As the > > United States and its allies hunt them in caves, mountains and jungles, > > al-Qaeda, Hamas and dozens of other militant Muslim groups are > > increasingly turning to the Internet to carry on their jihad, or holy war, > > against the West, U.S. law enforcement officials and experts say. It has > > become one of al-Qaeda's primary means of communication, they say. The > > groups use their Web sites to plan attacks, recruit members and solicit > > donations with little or no chance of being apprehended by the FBI or > > other law enforcement agencies, officials say. -- "Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas *Fscking* Edison." --Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
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