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RE: Osama bin Laden 'Fan Cubs' Build Online Communities
From: "William Lefkovics" <william () emailonastick com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:30:42 -0800
Is there a problem? -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Fergie Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:19 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: [funsec] Osama bin Laden 'Fan Cubs' Build Online Communities 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 -- "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/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Osama bin Laden 'Fan Cubs' Build Online Communities Fergie (Mar 08)
- RE: Osama bin Laden 'Fan Cubs' Build Online Communities William Lefkovics (Mar 08)
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- Re: Osama bin Laden 'Fan Cubs' Build Online Communities Fergie (Mar 08)