Twitter – the newest addition to the terrorism toolbox?

Paul Raven @ 27-10-2008

Yes, folks, you read that correctly – Twitter is becoming the latest channel for the multipronged assault on Freedom as promulgated by nebulously defined ideologues everywhere! At least that’s what the US Army intelligence types reckon, ranking Twitter and other microblogging services alongside GPS maps and voice modulation software as the latest potential tools of terror.

I think the person who submitted the story to SlashDot summed it up best: “Just wait until the Army finds out about chat rooms and email!“

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One Response to “Twitter – the newest addition to the terrorism toolbox?”

  1. Tom James says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 9:58 am

    As Charles Stross says of the Interception Modernisation Programme:

    How long is it going to be before we see scare stories about terrorists with exotic input rigs holding meetings in Second Life by semaphore?

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