"GPS cell phone service could be used by our adversaries for travel plans, surveillance and targeting,"said a draft report by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion, posted on the website of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). No more maps at gas stations folks, and I had better go back to using a sextant on my boat lest somebody hijacks it and uses it to terrorize the Florida coast.
"Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences,"Damn those vegetarian devils!
"Twitter is already used by some members to post and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives,"and aren't those Republicans good at it?
"Terrorists could theoretically use Twitter social networking in the US as an operation tool,"and the same thing goes for postcards and telephones and semaphore signals! Who knows what those boy scouts are talking about? Don't they have training camps or something like that?
"Terrorists may or may not be using voice-changing software but it should be of open source interest that online terrorist and/or terrorist enthusiasts are discussing it,"said the Generals, and if the price of goats is being discussed in Pakistan, we need to get the flock out of there.
Cross posted from Human Voices
Captain, I thought Military Intelligence was an oxymoron with the emphasis on "moron."
ReplyDeleteThey say that General Norman Schwartzkopf had an IQ of 170 for whatever that's worth. It's enough to disqualify him for president though.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if these people considered that there isn't anything that can't be used by a dedicated insurgent, even if we're stripped of everything but our shorts.
I saw an article the other day about Pentagon officials worried that terrorists will use World of Warcraft to plot attacks. It's easy to make fun of these people, but we have to remember the median age of a two-star general is about fifty-five, they have spent a huge amount of their lives in the rarefied world of deployments, and that means they are probably JUST FINDING OUT that WoW exists. They're a little like Bush the Elder, who flipped over grocery store checkout scanners in '92 -- just a wee bit out of touch.
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