sure the jews at Facebook, Google and Apple want to enable Islam to spread it's poison. what incentive would they have to escalate a zionist vs muzzy war?
On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 9:39:45 AM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11208796/How-social-media-is-helping-Islamic-State-to-spread-its-poison.html > > *How social media is helping Islamic State to spread its poison* > > [image: fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the > Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria] > > Edward Snowden should feel very proud of himself as he enjoys the comfort > of his Russian safe haven. Not only has the whistle-blower’s treachery in > revealing how America and its allies spy on their enemies made him the > darling of the liberal Left. It now transpires that Snowden’s exposé has > educated a whole new generation of extremists about how best to exploit the > power of the web to peddle their militant ideology. > > As far as Islamist terrorists fighting in Iraq and Syria are concerned, to > have a “Snowden-approved” security system on their mobile phones and > personal computers is to possess the ultimate in internet accessories. > During his work as a contractor at America’s National Security Agency > (NSA), Snowden gathered information about how it and its British > equivalent, the GCHQ listening centre at Cheltenham, accessed social media > sites such as *Twitter <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/>* > and *Facebook <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/>* to > monitor the activities of criminals and terrorists. > > As a result, groups that use the internet for their own sinister purposes > have changed the way they communicate so as to evade detection by Western > security agencies. Aided by the increased use of encryption software by the > leading internet service providers, terrorist groups such as the *Islamic > State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) > <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/>*have found > that, simply by adding freely available security programs and apps to their > devices, they can conceal their activities from prying eyes. > > It is not just about organising terrorist attacks. Winning the propaganda > battle is vital in any conflict – and thanks to Snowden, Isil has proved > adept at using its new-found mastery of the internet to advertise both the > dramatic success it has enjoyed in capturing large swathes of Syria and > Iraq, and the barbaric methods it employs to strike fear into the hearts of > its enemies. > > As Robert Hannigan, who took over as GCHQ’s new director earlier this > week, has pointed out, the way today’s Islamist extremists use the internet > is fundamentally different to the antiquated approach of Osama bin Laden’s > al-Qaeda, which saw it primarily as a means of communication between > different terror cells. According to Mr Hannigan, Isil has “embraced the > web as a noisy channel in which to promote itself, intimidate people, and > radicalise new recruits”. > > Isil is the first terrorist group whose members have grown up using > computers, and the group has demonstrated a high level of sophistication > both in the way it produces its propaganda videos and in how it expertly > exploits social media networks to ensure they attract a large following. > > For example, the gruesome execution videos of Western hostages such as the > US journalist James Foley are carefully stage-managed, in order to capture > the full horror of the crime without explicitly showing the exact moment > when the captive is decapitated – thereby staying within the social media > guidelines that ban the dissemination of acts of extreme violence. > > Isil has also proved adept at making sure its cheap, home-made videos > reach the widest possible audience. One successful tactic is to hijack > popular Twitter hashtags, such as those relating to the recent referendum > on Scottish independence or last summer’s World Cup in Brazil, which > enables its hateful message to reach a far wider audience than its > traditional following within the radicalised Islamist community. > > [image: > mailbox://C:/Users/Bruce/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/4minmtca.default/Mail/pop.erols.com/Inbox?number=1113677023&part=1.2.3&filename=snowden_2912545c.jpeg] > > *Thanks to Edward Snowden, renegade groups are tech-savvy (REUTERS)* > > Preventing Isil, as well as other criminal organisations such as > paedophile rings, from exploiting the internet in this manner would be > perfectly feasible if the intelligence agencies still retained the ability > to track the location where the material originated. But thanks to Snowden, > renegade groups are now well-acquainted with the techniques that > organisations such as the NSA and GCHQ have employed in the past to > identify potential terrorist cells – including accessing social media > websites and private emails alongside the more traditional interception of > phone calls. > > In the post-Snowden world, this has become immeasurably more difficult – > not least because the whistle-blower’s revelations prompted many of the > world’s leading social media companies to tighten up their security > arrangements, primarily to reassure customers that their private activities > were safe from the activities of intelligence-seeking eavesdroppers. > > Both Apple and Google have recently changed their default settings to make > encryption an opt-out rather than an opt-in feature. Moreover, the cosy > relationship that existed pre-Snowden between the service providers and the > spooks, which meant the agencies were given details of the access codes, is > now dead: it ended the moment Snowden’s revelations provoked a public > outcry on both sides of the Atlantic about the alleged mass surveillance > this allowed. > > Subsequent attempts to heal the rift have foundered over the internet > firms’ erroneous belief that their interests are best served by putting a > higher priority on protecting their customers than on preventing acts of > terrorism. > > But if, as Mr Hannigan contends, these companies have become the unwitting > “command and control networks” for groups such as Isil, it is very much in > their interests to cooperate. 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