This is just too ridiculous/crazy not to post. It brings to mind the question of who is really one step ahead technologically, the military or the college students?
Army Warns of Twitter Dangers
Did anyone tell these "intelligence" folks about facebook? Actually, the full-report is pretty comprehensive..
Army Warns of Twitter Dangers
Army Warns of Twitter Dangers
October 25, 2008
Agence France-Presse
A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-changing software as potential terrorist tools.
The report by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion, posted on the website of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), examines a number of mobile and web technologies and their potential uses by militants. ****
A chapter on "Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter" notes that Twitter members sent out messages, known as "Tweets," reporting the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets and activists at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide information on police movements.
"Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences," the report said.
Did anyone tell these "intelligence" folks about facebook? Actually, the full-report is pretty comprehensive..
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