[IP] U.S. Army warns of Twittering terrorists

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: October 28, 2008 8:56:25 AM EDT
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[Note:  This item comes from friend Ed DeWath.  DLH]

From: Edward DeWath <dewath@prodigy.net>
Date: October 27, 2008 8:01:17 AM PDT
To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Subject: U.S. Army warns of Twittering terrorists

This is worth reading to the end. This is what we pay the intelligence  
community for. Weep. Or laugh.  ~e
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U.S. Army warns of Twittering terrorists
October 26, 2008
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10075487-83.html>

The U.S. intelligence community is concerned that terrorists might use  
micro-blogging tool Twitter to coordinate attacks.

The report -- presented by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion  
and posted to the Federation of American Scientists Web site --  
examines the possible ways terrorists could use mobile and Web  
technologies such as the Global Positioning System, digital maps, and  
Twitter mashups to plan and execute terrorist attacks.

According to the draft Army intelligence report  (PDF) posted on the  
Web:

"Twitter has become a social activism tool for human rights groups,  
communists, atheists, political enthusiasts, and vegetarians."
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