[privacy] Chertoff: Web Could Be Terror Training Camp

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

I'm not exactly sure why this article disturbs me, but it does.

It's not that the Internet can be (and sometimes is) used by
radicals to disseminate potentially damaging idealisms, but more
that the scare tactics associated with the "War on Terror" seems
to be edging towards more and more efforts to curb Internet privacies,
and erode freedoms of ideals and speech (and enable more surveillance
opportunities).

Via Reuters.

[snip]

Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical
ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that
could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday.

"We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the
Internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International
Association of the Chiefs of Police.

"They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to
necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that
diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things
like bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are
the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and
satellites."

[snip]

More:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-10-17T050748Z_01_N16404472_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-CHERTOFF.xml

- ferg


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

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