Army Warns of Twitter Dangers - Annotated
AFP’s take on the Army intel report about terrorist use of cell phones, GPS, and yes, Twitter. AFP cites Wired, which slightly misrepresented the contents of the Army report, playing up the Twitter aspect when most of the report was actually about cell phones and GPS. Twitter […]

Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists - Annotated
tags: terrorism, intelligence, social_media

Could Twitter become terrorists’ newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks.

The report is roughly divided into two halves. The first is […]

Report: Taliban Using Skype to Make Secure Phone Calls
Surprisingly enough, Fox News has a more skeptical view of the Taliban’s supposed use of Skype.
tags: terrorism, new_media, social_media, infowar

“The trouble with this technology is that it is easily available but devilishly hard to crack,” the source told the Mail. “The technology can now be accessed on […]

Pentagon envisions spaceship troops - Annotated
Halo-style marines anyone?
tags: future war

The Pentagon wants to rocket troops through space to hot spots anywhere on the globe within two hours, and planners spent two days last month discussing how to do it, military documents show.
Civilian and military officials held a two-day conference at the National Security Space Office […]

In the intelligence community it is (and has been) an issue of concern.  In my daily weekly first-time-in-too-long scan of my RSS feeds, I came across a reference to an article in Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s professional journal, titled “An Intelligence Role for the Footnote: For and Against.”  The article is actually a reprint […]