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Twitter critters: Ezra Levant has a long blog post about the apparent implosion going on over at Jen Lynch’s “human rights” Stasi. In one part  he paints a poignant—dare one say pathetic?—picture of some Jews, still clutching their tattered security blanket even as the building disintegrates around them. As Ezra points out (and not for the first time), gone are the days when a Jew could feel “secure” by playing Whack-a-Nazi and getting the CHRC to get the whacked one to cough up mucho dinero to the Jews’ self-appointed proxy, He Who Must Not Be Named; such efforts have been rendered obsolete by the Internet, an entity as big as a tsunami and as impossible to control. By coincidence, not long after reading Ezra’s post I happened to come across this. It’s a story on CNet about Twitter, technology that allows people to communicate without ever being detected (even by a Stasi).

Micro-blogging tool Twitter could be used by terrorists to coordinate attacks, according to a purported draft Army intelligence report posted on the Web.

The report--present by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and posted to the Federation of the American Scientists Web site--examines the possible ways terrorists could use mobile and Web technologies such as the Global Positioning System, digital maps, and Twitter mashups to plan and executive terrorist attacks.

The presentation (PDF), which was first presented earlier this month, was reported Friday by Wired magazine's Noah Shachtman. A chapter titled "Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter," presents general , introductory information on Twitter and how it works, the report describes how it was used to report details of a recent earthquake in Los Angeles and by activists at the Republican National Convention.

"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.

Twitter is already used by some members to post and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives. Extremist and terrorist use of Twitter could evolve over time to reflect tactics that are already evolving in use by hacktivists and activists for surveillance. This could theoretically be combined with targeting. The report describes hacktivists as politically motivated hackers….

One more reason to drop the silly blankie, I’d say.

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