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  Internet terrorism | The undersigned
you obviously have no clue what terror means.
terror cannot be fixed by installing a filter or a plugin.
This must be called internet terrorism definetely.I used to get online pharmacy ads on the comments,its irritating,pollution.
theundersigned.net /2006/08/internet-terrorism   (1103 words)

  
  Terrorist Activities on the Internet - Terrorism Update
Terrorism and the Internet are related in two ways.
First, the Internet has become a forum for terrorist groups and individual terrorists both to spread their messages of hate and violence and to communicate with one another and with sympathizers.
Several Internet sites created by Hamas supporters, for example, carry the organization's charter and its political and military communiqués, some of which openly call for and extol the murder of Jews.
www.adl.org /Terror/focus/16_focus_a.asp   (697 words)

  
 CESNUR - "So Many Evil Things": Anti-Cult Terrorism via the Internet
Internet terrorism became an increasingly well-researched issue, but the term itself was variously defined.
Terrorism, in itself, is a socially constructed notion that is continuously renegotiated at the political level.
Terrorism is generally defined as the symbolic use of actual violence, for political reasons, against non-military targets.
www.cesnur.org /testi/anticult_terror.htm   (11826 words)

  
 Quizbiz » Blog Archive » The Internet & Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The same Internet that is used by children to learn and discover, is used by Terrorists to spread propaganda and threaten democracy.
Terrorists use this to their advantage, and it is becoming increasingly hard to tell the difference between civilian decrypted files and files known to be associated with terrorists.
As children use the internet to explore, and companies use the internet to effectively communicate, Terrorist use the internet for mostly harmful means.
quizbiz.us /blog/?p=23   (1710 words)

  
 IFEX ::
More than two years after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States, the fight against terrorism has compromised free expression on the Internet, leading to stricter monitoring of Internet traffic in both democratic countries and authoritarian regimes, says a new global survey by Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF).
Meanwhile, an increasing number of governments are employing sophisticated technologies to deny their citizens access to information on the Internet.
Of all countries surveyed in the report, China continues to be the number one jailer of Internet users.
www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/59792   (345 words)

  
 [legacy] A Proposed Federal Criminal Statute Addressing the Solicitation of Commercial Terrorism Through the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In recent months there has been an alarming increase in the use of the Internet to sponsor, solicit and encourage the use of "commercial terrorism." n2 For the purposes of this Model Statute, "commercial terrorism" is defined as the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce commercial interests.
A federal prosecutor seeking to indict a group or individual who uses the Internet to encourage acts of terrorism has at her disposal a wide array of criminal statutes aimed at punishing and preventing various forms of fraud, sabotage, and general societal misconduct that implicate a federal interest.
It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that the person solicited could not be convicted of the crime because he lacked the state of mind required for its commission, because he was incompetent or irresponsible, or because he is immune from prosecution or is not subject to prosecution.
www.rtmark.com /more/harvardjournal2000winter.html   (8820 words)

  
 Internet - Terrorism
Palestinian and international terrorist organizations make massive use of the Internet to spread propaganda supporting terrorism and as a means of maintaining contact between organizations (and headquarters), their infrastructures and their target populations (often over enormous distances).
The importance of the Internet as a means of marketing terrorism became significantly greater after the events of September 11, 2001.
The data provided here are primarily based on an examination of the Haganah Internet site in the United States (http://internet-haganah.us/haganah/), which tracks terrorist Internet sites, predominantly of an Islamic nature.
www.intelligence.org.il /eng/sib/8_04/internet.htm   (1396 words)

  
 A-Clue.Com, The War On Internet Terrorism, Always-On, Interactive Corp., Clued-in, Clueless; newsletter of 10/20/2003 - ...
The idea is that encryption keys would be sold to all users, who would require the support of these keys by all their correspondents, and who would hold these keys based on their own promises not to spam.
It is time for Internet law enforcement to be privatized, and for the control of Internet law to move from the majoritarian impulses of government to the consensual needs of honest businesses with stakes in the result.
When the Internet is used to bypass taxable activities, then tax revenues are reduced and politicians naturally want the Internet to pick up the slack.
www.a-clue.com /archive/03/cl031020.htm   (1938 words)

  
 Internet, not terrorism, is Federal Government's biggest enemy - "The Rant" - College Sports Forum
Should this trend grow and other people slowly begin to become cynical about what they're "leaders" are doing in DC and in state capitol buildings, it will become the biggest threat the state has ever faced.
In my opinion, they will beg for the days when terrorism was all they had to worry about.
The internet is amazing, and whatever future implications it holds will not be known for years.
igottarant.com /showthread.php?p=4634   (657 words)

  
 Internet surveillance - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The concept of internet surveillance, as with any type of surveillance, conjures up the images of someone skulking about, peeping through windows and spying through keyholes, listening through the walls, and generally nosing about where he/she does not belong.
Taking spyware and cookies one step further, internet surveillance is intentional and can utilize both to accomplish data mining and what is now being called ethical hacking.
Internet surveillance up since Sept. 11th, AP, May 28, 2002: "In the seven months since the passage of a sweeping law to combat terrorism, Internet and telecommunications companies have seen a surge in law enforcement requests to snoop on subscribers.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Internet_surveillance   (981 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Islamist Terrorism - America's Internet by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Another Internet service provider, Alabanza in Baltimore, provides network access to a Beirut-registered PIJ domain (www.jimail.com/abrar/), which appears to be hosted by Backbone Internet, a company in Florida.
In the meantime, Aaron Weisburd, Director of Internet Haganah, the foremost terrorist wesbites monitoring organization, discovered that sarayaalquds.com — the website of PIJ military unit, the "Al Quds Brigade" rabdullah.com and shikaki.com - are all being setup on 195.141.101.5 by a Swiss web-hosting company.
Rachel Ehrenfeld is author of Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed—and How to Stop It, Director of American Center for Democracy and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14948   (1041 words)

  
 Internet Resource Guide: Australian Terrorism Law
See also Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act 2002, Border Security Legislation Amendment Act 2002, Telecommunications Interception Legislation Amendment Act 2002, which were introduced after 11 September 2001 (on 12 March 2002) and are amending acts.
Criminal Code Amendment (Terrorism) Bill 2002 (Act no 40, 2003) introduced, to re-enact Part 5.3 of the Criminal Code (which contains federal terrorism offences enacted in June 2002, and amended in October 2002) so that it would attract the support of State references of power in accordance with section 51(xxxvii) of the Constitution.
As the House of Representatives was dissolved and the Parliament, including the Senate, was prorogued on 8 October 2001 prior to the general election on 10th November 2001, no legislation relating to terrorism was introduced into Parliament until February and March 2002.
www.aph.gov.au /library/intguide/law/terrorism.htm   (6375 words)

  
 Madrid: Terrorism, the Internet and Democracy | Bayosphere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Internet is a foundation of democratic society in the 21st century, because the core values of the Internet and democracy are so closely aligned.
The openness of the Internet may be exploited by terrorists, but as with democratic governments, openness minimizes the likelihood of terrorist acts and enables effective responses to terrorism.
Internet CAN do a lot good, when intentions are positive and constructive for a wide circle of people, but intentions depend on one's moral stage of development and that is not a matter of technological improvement as such.
bayosphere.com /blog/dangillmor/031005/madrid   (4171 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Technology | Risk of internet collapse rising
Simulated attacks on key internet hubs have shown how vulnerable the worldwide network is to disruption by disaster or terrorist action.
If an attack or disaster destroyed the major nodes of the internet, the network itself could begin to unravel, warn the scientists who carried out the simulations.
"The ability for networks to re-route, re-connect and have redundancy is clearly important for the survival of the internet in the face of disasters," said Dr Grubesic.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/2514651.stm   (500 words)

  
 Terrorism, New Internet System Top Agenda At Annual Meeting
Terrorism, a new Internet-based criminal identification system and a budget increase were expected to top the agenda at this week's annual Interpol meeting, which began yesterday and ends Thursday in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde.
Nearly 450 senior police officials from 139 countries plan to look into ways to heighten the role of Interpol in fighting crime and terrorism across international boundaries and to vote on proposals to increase the organization's $24.5 million budget by 23 percent.
Interpol is about to unveil a new Internet-based system to speed up identification of wanted criminals that will enable digital transfer of pictures, fingerprints and, in the future, DNA profiles.
www.unwire.org /unwire/20021022/29776_story.asp   (286 words)

  
 Muslim American Society
WASHINGTON — A federal jury in Idaho on Thursday acquitted a Saudi computer student of charges that he spread terrorism on the Internet, handing the Justice Department a resounding defeat in a case that turned on a provision of the USA Patriot Act.
He was accused of designing websites and posting messages on the Internet to recruit and raise funds for terrorist missions in Chechnya and Israel.
Al-Hussayen was acquitted on all three terrorism counts filed against him, as well as one count of making a false statement and two counts of visa fraud.
www.masnet.org /articleinterest.asp?id=1282   (1334 words)

  
 Internet Terrorism tomorrow-8/26? - nV News Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
To claim it is impossible for God to have always existed, is to claim that every line has both a beginning and an end, and that eventually the number system will have to end somewhere.
Earlier this week, nine of the Internet's 13 root servers were crippled by what is being described as a large-scale denial of service attack...
Internet service can slow if only four root servers are disabled for any significant period of time, which makes the attack's successful impairment of nine servers especially disturbing.
www.nvnews.net /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=35569   (999 words)

  
 E-Terrorism: An online war?
Nonetheless, Ingram points out that the Internet can be used in a variety of ways to support terrorist acts, outlining scenarios whereby a physical attack is timed to coincide with an attack on essential communications services.
When it comes to Internet-based acts of terrorism for example, there is little difference between a politically motivated terrorist attack and a malicious corporate or nuisance hack attack.
Nonetheless, as Valois points out, there can be no doubt that the Internet has been used as a means to generate support for different terrorist organisations, creating a dangerous dilemma for governments who find themselves under threat.
www.crime-research.org /library/Vivienne.htm   (880 words)

  
 Knowledge Base @ The Office Company
Internet terrorists can take over your computer and use it for a denial of service (DoS) attack (for example).
Protecting your computer with security software and hardware is a small thing that you can do to help stop Internet terrorism.
Firewallguide.com is an award-winning guide to Internet security for home and SOHO users which has had more than three million page views since it went online in May 2000.
www.theofficecompany.com /Articles_Forms/current/markus_terrorism.html   (410 words)

  
 Hamas - Marketing terrorism by Internet
The main site in Arabic is Hamas' most important Internet presence and serves as its primary “information” and propaganda tool, aimed at both the Palestinians and other target audiences in Arab and Muslim countries, as well as in Arab and Muslim communities around the world; it is regularly updated on a daily, often hourly, basis.
The site served as the spearhead of the propaganda campaign Hamas conducted against Israel and the PA It repeatedly referred to Israel 's withdrawal as a Hamas “victory” and stated that the movement was firm in its commitment not to disarm, and to continue its terrorist attacks on Israel until its destruction.
That might suggest a desire to reach as wide an audience as possible and/or it might be a security measure stemming from the fear that one of more of the sites might be shut down at the result of political or technical factors.
www.intelligence.org.il /eng/eng_n/internet_m05e.htm   (1370 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges: Books: Gabriel Weimann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges by Gabriel Weimann
Weimann from Israel wants American government control over access to certain Internet websites so that terrorists won't be able to communicate; or perhaps the real reason is to block Moslem news and propaganda so that we will be exposed only to Israeli slanted news and propaganda.
This reach of the Internet is true in developed countries and in the major cities of developing countries.
www.amazon.com /Terror-Internet-New-Arena-Challenges/dp/1929223714   (1798 words)

  
 U.N. Summit to Focus on Internet :: The Terrorism Research Center ::
Published as TRC's RealNews, the service has thousands of subscribers and is often referred to as the "terrorism early bird", in reference to the open source newsletter provided to senior government leaders each morning.
If you are interested in terrorism, homeland security or other international security issues, you will find it an invaluable resource.
Many developing nations complain that the world's most visible Internet governance body -- the U.S.-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- does not adequately represent their interests and should be scrapped in favor of a group allied with the United Nations.
www.terrorism.com /print.php?sid=18214   (249 words)

  
 Preventing Internet terrorism should be priority - Minnesota Daily
onventional terrorism and bioterrorism might not be the only worries for the United States because of the recent emergence of computer terrorism.
Internet viruses and worms cost very little to produce, but economic effects can be extremely large.
A large-scale assault by Internet hackers has yet to be realized mainly because computer hackers are largely individualized parties.
www.mndaily.com /articles/2003/01/30/37708   (451 words)

  
 Terrorism, the Internet and Free Access to Information
Calls to restrict the core human rights to freedom of expression and free access to information are reported in the wake of these tragic events.
It has been suggested that some of the suspected hijackers may have communicated with each other by using Internet services at public libraries.
The campaign against terrorism is to be won.
www.ifla.org /V/press/terrorism.htm   (495 words)

  
 Urban Scrawl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Or maybe not - because the execs running the ISP's are just as greedy as the spammers, and they don't want to spend any more money than they have to if it means cutting into their profits.
This is a very good reason for having an international independant authority to make sure the interests, ideals and the very nature of the internet itself are not compromised.
The top-tier ISP that fl holed Blue Security should be fined substantially, and the staff member at that ISP who did the deed should be spending time in jail.
demon.twinflame.org /archives/2006/05/internet_terrorism.php   (976 words)

  
 Experts: Terrorists Increasingly Use Internet to Spread Message - 2004-05-14
An Internet video showing the beheading of an American hostage in Iraq is the latest example of how terrorists use and abuse cyberspace.
Weimann added that the wide array of information on the Internet is also available to potential terrorists and was used for research by the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
He is executive secretary of the Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism, a branch of the Organization of American States that coordinates security policies among member states in the Western Hemisphere.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2004-05/a-2004-05-14-28-1.cfm   (748 words)

  
 Terrorism Today aa Internet Resources aa AUL Bibliographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Terrorism related excerpts from Global Trends 2015 are also included.
FBI's War on Terrorism link and search engine gives access to all terrorism related subjects on fbi.gov. Photographs of the hijackers of September 11 and press releases are also available.
A U.S. State Department publication that is a summary of what is known about the terrorism attacks of September 11, and their connection to Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network.
www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/tertod/terint.htm   (1258 words)

  
 Islamist Terrorism - America's Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
They also use their web sites as a means of contact and as a tool to deliver instructions from headquarters to members of the organization around the world.
Hamas is leading among terrorist organizations in making aggressive use of the Internet as a communications channel.
She is the author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It, and Director of American Center for Democracy.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=14948   (952 words)

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