13:46 "AlQaida hightech and information warfare | |
| The Washington Post published a very interesting article on the use of high-tech employees of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda. It is not just about the most modern computer equipment, laptops, Sony, digital cameras and reception of cryptography using PGP, but also about the unique methods of online promotion. Some of them are know-how in the field of hacking social networking sites. In fact, Al-Qaida sees the Western society, living in dense information field, as one big, tightly bound, a social network and skillfully manipulates it through a carefully thought-out actions, including the use of YouTube, Wikipedia and so on. A good example manipulation - the action of one of the leaders of the organization, Ayman Zawahiri, head of Americans who give $ 25 million is not known where he was hiding, Ayman, but he regularly gives on-line interviews and answers to questions that he sent over the Internet. After the start of this campaign in December last year received the 1888 suicide of questions from journalists and ordinary citizens. He diligently responsible for about one-fifth of issues, including hostile. Naturally, such a PR, even from the enemy gives a stunning effect in a free Western society, which can not block counterpropaganda. Interviews with the enemy publish even the national media. In fact, Al Qaeda launched a violent activity in recent years: for example, they take a lot of documentaries, including the spread version for iPods and mobile devices. Over the last year captured 97 of the original movie: six times more than in 2005. One of the masterpieces of terrorist propaganda became 80-minute documentary "The Power of Truth", released in September last year. Even western experts recognize the skill of its creators. The war against terrorism in our days has become a purely informational war propaganda and counter propaganda, the battle for hearts and minds, which occurs in the information field: on TV and the Internet. In this case, "Al-Qaida has become much more professional over the past few years. Specialists bitterly note that this information war, Americans still lose to an opponent. In 2005, they struck a powerful blow to the system of disseminating information, but to date, terrorists have been unable to fully repair the damage and establish a new decentralized network of content distribution, which they call al-Fajr Media Center. It includes about 50 000 people, including thousands of web masters and specially trained Internet users who circulate the information widely, even using YouTube, Wikipedia and other sites. According to U.S. intelligence, the increasing flow of digital content from terrorists due to the fact that they were able to establish a powerful and highly secure database on unmanaged lands in western Pakistan. Analysts assert that the internal communications of al-Qaida have improved so that now almost invulnerable. They use PGP worldwide and rapsrostranyayut among employees textbooks on information security (manual "Technical Mujahid"). Videos of Osama bin Laden and other leaders made in a safe place, after which the file is stored on the flash drive and transferred to the courier. At several stages of flash delivered in an Internet cafe, where people flooded the video on a password-protected website. Editors and producers are treated with the video using the latest laptops Sony Vaio models. Edited transcript bin Laden published in open access in less than a week after the recording. The Company now process up to automatism, and all the creative staff who seem to operate freely and without any special problems. However, U.S. officials carefully monitor all posts and try to kill each new person that appears in the frame. For example, in May 2007, a Taliban commander, was killed 36 hours after co-starred in this film. Abu Musab Zarqawi, was destroyed in June 2006, lived only two months after the shooting. | |
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