Osama bin Laden 'Fan Cubs' Build Online Communities

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Now, wait just a second.

Didn't some criminal Brazilians use Orkut as drug distribution network?

Yes, in fact, I believe it did:

http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2005/07/brazilians-used-orkut-as-drug.html

(That is why I keep a blog. :-)

I'm not into fear-mongering, but this is kind of troublesome.

Fuck MySpace -- _this_ quite bothersome. That crimal activity
oof this nature continues to be an issue, Orkut deserves a bit
more attention, methinks.

Via USA Today.

[snip]

Al-Qaeda sympathizers are using Orkut, a popular, worldwide Internet service owned by Google, to rally support for 
Osama bin Laden, share videos and Web links promoting terrorism and recruit non-Arabic-speaking Westerners, according 
to terrorism experts and a survey of the sites.

Most jihadist message boards on traditional websites are in Arabic and require users to know someone connected with the 
boardbefore they can gain access. Social networking services such as Orkut, Friendster and MySpace, however, allow 
users to create personal profiles and associate with "communities" based on shared interests. After users join one of 
these services, they have access to the forum postings in any public community.

These popular Internet services can be used for everything from publicizing a garage band to finding dates to 
connecting supporters of democracy — or terrorism.

[snip]

More:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-03-08-orkut-al-qaeda_x.htm

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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