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New Terrorism: Five days in ManhattanBy Roderick JonesTwo events centered on New York City separated by five days demonstrated the end of one phase of terrorism and the pending arrival of the next. The failed car-bombing in Times square and the dizzying stock market crash less than... Freedom in 2010By Roderick JonesI’ve previously written about the importance I felt the book Daemon has with regard to considering future warfare, insurgency and terrorism threats. The descriptions within the book of what could be future battle-spaces and particularly, the use of ‘D-Space’, a... Detroit Attack: Adaptive threats meet tired security responseBy Roderick JonesStagnant Counter-Terrorism response The visible US response to the latest attempted terrorist attack on the country, has so far sadly conformed to past mistakes and strategic blunders. The attempted attack by the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as the NorthWest Airlines... Climate Change and TerrorismBy Roderick JonesJust before the world's attention swings over to the climate change conference in Copenhagen [COP15] I thought it might be worthwhile to pause and consider the security implications of this subject. The CIA announced it was opening a Climate Change... Operation Overt: systemic vulnerability and investigative primacyBy Roderick JonesYesterday three British Muslims – Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Tanvir Hussain and Assad Sarwar – were convicted of plotting to blow up seven transatlantic airliners in mid-air in a coordinated attack intended to surpass 9/11. The coverage of the case in... Spime Networks and the future of Intelligence CollectionBy Roderick JonesI recently had the fortune to attend a seminar by David Orban on the ‘Internet of Things’ hosted by Singularity University at the NASA Ames Research Park. This subject is of deep interest with regard to the future collection of... President Obama to 'appear' in virtual worldsBy Roderick JonesThe announcement that President Obama is scheduled to 'appear' in a number of virtual spaces tomorrow morning (details here) as part of a USC Annenberg initiative seems to reference previous discussions on denying virtual space to individuals. Would a griefing... State of Play VI: Malevolent MashupsBy Roderick JonesI had the pleasure of hosting the Security and Surveillance panel discussion at the State of Play VI conference at New York Law School last week. The panel was designed to try and explore ideas around security and surveillance in... Hack-Jet: Losing a commercial airliner in a networked worldBy Roderick JonesWhen there is a catastrophic loss of an aircraft in any circumstances, there are inevitably a host of questions raised about the safety and security of the aviation operation. The loss of Air France flight 447 off the coast of... The Lulz takes on North KoreaBy Roderick JonesAs a one-time student of the cold war, pondering the potential causes of a global nuclear war was something of a Sunday afternoon past-time. The historic classic is of course the Cuban missile crisis but equally important were the series... ISC report into 7/7 and Information CloudsBy Roderick JonesWhile clearly technology can provide an edge in certain circumstances its capabilities and limitations need to be clearly understood. MercyHurst Virtual Worlds InitiativeBy Roderick JonesMercyHurst College has a new exhibit on virtual worlds, which is well worth visiting. The project is called Maleperduys and the website can be linked to here. The project examines virtual worlds from a wide variety of angles including terrorism,... Is Twitter useful after all?By Roderick JonesAnnouncing $35M in new funding last Friday Twitter was one of the few bright spots in a collapsing economy. The micro-blogging service has been attracting increasing attention within the mainstream, as the political classes adopt the service – most notably,... Blunt Tools and Online Sex-PredatorsBy Roderick JonesThere has always been something of an ongoing debate in the Counter-Terrorism community about whether extremist online networks should be closed down. On the one hand closing them down would make some activities harder to achieve but on the other... Globally Networked Anarchy (#Griot)By Roderick JonesThe year 2008 saw the hype fall away from virtual worlds but in contrast social networks are going from strength to strength and are being increasingly used as protest vehicles around the world. While the utility of Facebook and Twitter... Twitter comes of age reporting on Mumbai attacksBy Roderick JonesThe micro-blogging service Twitter has been providing updates to the attacks in Mumbai. Link to Twitter feed. Some of the commentary and links are off-base but it is a fascinating view into how the 'crowd' can monitor and report on... Aardvark's and AvatarsBy Roderick JonesThere continues to be some discussion and rejection of the idea that terrorists would be able to exploit new technology platforms such as social networking and virtual worlds. In a recent post the blogger Abu Aardvark (aka Marc Lynch from... UK Terrorism Intelligence Report highlights extremist 'enclaves'By Roderick JonesA report entitled ‘International Terrorism’ drawn up by the intelligence branch of the Ministry of Defence in the UK, was leaked to the Sunday Telegraph newspaper in the UK. The document outlines the continued high threat to the UK from... Bin Laden’s ballot wasn’t counted - ‘it’s the economy stupid’By Roderick JonesNow all the ballots have been counted and the Presidential election decided (apart from Missouri which remains too close to call) it seems like an appropriate time to comment on the seeming lack of any attempt by al-Qaeda (or affiliates)... Twit or TweetBy Roderick JonesThe Army’s 304th Military Intelligence Battalion recently produced a presentation entitled, “ al Qaida-Like Mobile Discussions & Potential Creative Uses”. The presentation has some interesting information regarding, ‘Pro Terrorist Propaganda Cell Phone Interfaces”, mobile phone target surveillance, “Voice Changers for... Europe's most dangerous terrorist released to house arrestBy Roderick JonesIt isn’t every morning that you wake up and read in the newspaper that one of the worlds most dangerous terrorists has been released on bail but that is exactly what happened today when the New York Times reported on... Virtual Assassination as a Counterterrorism toolBy Roderick JonesAs part of the virtualization of terrorism it is worth considering what, if any, terrorist tactics can be applied in this new paradigm. One tactic, which can probably transfer from the real world to cyber environments is assassination, or in... Virtual Worlds require Virtual-HUMINT (VHUMINT)By Roderick JonesThe excellent Dark Web project at Arizona Universities Artificial Intelligence Lab has recently completed research into the use of Web 2.0 media by International jihadi groups. While fascinating in some respects it also clearly demonstrates how traditional text-mining attempts to... Worry about the Daemon not Grand Theft AutoBy Roderick JonesYesterday saw the release of Grand Theft Auto IV accompanied as usual by howls of protest from certain quarters of the media about declining moral standards. For the uninitiated Grand Theft Auto is a video game where the player takes... Britain's first Jihadi 'Lone Wolf' bomber?By Roderick JonesBig time terrorism plots are always big news whereas more subtle and interesting trends are often recorded as footnotes. One such footnote occurred over Christmas 2007 in the British city of Birmingham. A 38-year-old man, Hassan Muhammed Sabri Al Tabbakh... Congressional Hearing on Virtual WorldsBy Roderick JonesToday Congress held its first hearing on virtual worlds. I don’t have much to add to the summary already provided by Virtually Blind. Discussion did at one point turn to the use of Second Life by terrorists with Representative Jane... Spitzer's quaint captureBy Roderick JonesOne of the stranger sides to the unfolding Eliot Spitzer story is that he was caught by a wiretap in conjunction with some irregular banking activity. This seems an exceptionally quaint way to be caught out in 2008 and doesn’t... UK terrorist recruiter convictedBy Roderick JonesThe trial of Mohammed Hamid one of the leading organizers of terrorism in the UK has ended. Hamid along with three of his followers has been convicted using new legislation introduced in 2006, which criminalizes attendance at a place used... Appeal Court Judgment UK - Necessary correctionBy Roderick JonesThe appeal court in London today overturned the convictions of five young Muslim men for possession of extremist literature. The success of the young men’s appeal is likely to have ramifications on other cases in the UK. The full judgment... Davos (WEF) and 'Terrorism in a Networked World'By Roderick JonesThe annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos has a number of discussion themes and on the 24th January ‘Terrorism in a Networked World’ was the topic. The panel discussed the fact that extremist groups are using the... JihadinetsBy Roderick JonesThis piece was co-authored with Michael Schrage who is senior advisor to the MIT Security Studies program and a Sloan School adjunct lecturer. Terrorists are early adopters of new technologies - especially if they're cheap and easy to acquire. Al-Qaeda's... No LimitsBy Roderick JonesThe thoughtful private Intelligence company Stratfor just released a piece suggesting what it thinks are the limits to jihadi terrorists being able to conduct their terrorist planning and training online: The Role and Limitations of the ‘Dark Web’ In jihadist... Facebook’s Admiral Poindexter momentBy Roderick JonesFacebook is rarely out of the news these days given its status as the darling of Silicon Valley, but recently the reporting has centered on the badly received, Beacon software system. Facebook introduced this mainly with the idea of allowing... Look and Learn: Virtual worlds and Strategic CommunicationBy Roderick JonesGovernments are catching-up with the arrival of 3-D virtual worlds with a number of initiatives across both public and privately accessed virtual worlds. The focus of these projects to date, has been the ‘training’ element that these environments offer to... Legal response should be software responseBy Roderick JonesLord Admiral Alan West, Gordon Brown's chief security minister made an unfortunate mistake yesterday - he spoke his mind. When asked at 8.20am whether, he thought detention times should be extended past 28 days he said, "I'm not convinced we... |