NationStates Jolt Archive


e-Jihad may cripple Internet

Asuarati
26-08-2004, 13:40
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1639246,00.asp?kc=ewnws082504dtx1k0000599
Seosavists
26-08-2004, 13:47
Soo which one of the people on this forum is Osama I know you're here somewhere come out come out Mr bin laden
Snake Venom
26-08-2004, 13:54
Well if they do it won't be for long.How can they be SO technological?
Terra - Domina
26-08-2004, 14:03
i am a terrorist mastermind
Skibereen
26-08-2004, 14:07
Well if they do it won't be for long.How can they be SO technological?
Even if your location didnt say USA by that statement you make it obvious.
You think they all live in caves and throw rocks at tanks?
These men are well trained wefinanced and many are not young disinfranchised poorly educated unemployed 18-25 yearolds most are 25-30 professionals with college educations or real world experience equivalent.
While I doubt they could bring the net down, to under estimate your enemy based on simple stereotypes is ill advised.
Terra - Domina
26-08-2004, 14:12
Even if your location didnt say USA by that statement you make it obvious.
You think they all live in caves and throw rocks at tanks?
These men are well trained wefinanced and many are not young disinfranchised poorly educated unemployed 18-25 yearolds most are 25-30 professionals with college educations or real world experience equivalent.
While I doubt they could bring the net down, to under estimate your enemy based on simple stereotypes is ill advised.


nonono, its ok, they underestimated them before 9-11 and look how that worked out
Drooish
26-08-2004, 14:23
Even if your location didnt say USA by that statement you make it obvious.
You think they all live in caves and throw rocks at tanks?
These men are well trained wefinanced and many are not young disinfranchised poorly educated unemployed 18-25 yearolds most are 25-30 professionals with college educations or real world experience equivalent.
While I doubt they could bring the net down, to under estimate your enemy based on simple stereotypes is ill advised.

Comparably, yes, they are barbaric, and judged as such by their own actions. The educated mass sits in leadership positions with religious fanatics following behind, fueled by propoganda. No, a terrorist with a college education isn't unheard of, look at Bin Laden for example, but they're not even nearly common. Even then, look at the quality of education and ask yourself 'does it really matter if they were'. A quick trip to a local college party and summating the fickle crowds would say 'no'. Even people with a college edookashun in general aren't smart or refined.

Allusion to them being able to take down the internet? Nah. If they did, it'd be strikes in physical manner anyways, suicide bombers headed for junctions, they wouldn't have the brainpower and technology at hand to do it remotely.
Superpower07
26-08-2004, 14:24
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1639246,00.asp?kc=ewnws082504dtx1k0000599

Sounds like the 'Information Warfare' tactics used by the Georgians in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Kryozerkia
26-08-2004, 14:28
At the risk of having people here brand me as stupid, I do have to suggest the following... While al-Qaeda may have the technology to do this, maybe it's just a bunch of really bored teenagers and theyre just calling it as such...... (I know it sounds stupid, but, anything to kill boredom, right?)
Thunderland
26-08-2004, 14:33
Even if your location didnt say USA by that statement you make it obvious.
You think they all live in caves and throw rocks at tanks?
These men are well trained wefinanced and many are not young disinfranchised poorly educated unemployed 18-25 yearolds most are 25-30 professionals with college educations or real world experience equivalent.
While I doubt they could bring the net down, to under estimate your enemy based on simple stereotypes is ill advised.

Hey, you know what? When you take petty snipes at people on the basis of where they're from, you show your own lack of intelligence. Yes, we have our fair share of morons. We also have 290 million people living in the United States. I can certainly imagine that every European country (as well as the rest of the world) has their own morons too. When you get up to 290 million people, we'll start taking a peek at your level of idiocy as well.

Those petty potshots just tick me off. I would have agreed with the remainder of your statement but you lost me as soon as you began to denigrate my country. I don't once recall saying a bad word about any country or their citizenry at any time on these boards.

The sad thing is that those type of comments are generally made by a select group of Europeans who believe they are more open and intelligent than their American counterparts. You can sit there and pat yourself on the back for being so much more refined, yet fail to grasp the irony of the fact that you are being, by your own stereotyped definition, distinctly American in your ethnocentricism.

You don't earn support from those who would stand by your opinion by slapping potential allies across the face. Should we begin dredging up the stereotypes associated with the rest of the world's nations as well?

Grow up and quit being so judgmental.
United Christiandom
26-08-2004, 14:42
Gentlemen, please!

We're...adults here? Alright, the majority of us are adults or soon to be adults. The point is that terrorism is a problem that we are simply going to have to deal with as it comes. Yes, fight it with CIA and other infomation gathering units, and do a lot of work with special forces, but other than that, we just have to live with it.

Only rarely will we get the chance to pull an Afganistan. Not many terrorist groups actually have an entire nation to set up camp in. Most of this will be one guy at a time. If that means we lose the net for a while, alright, we'll deal with it and move on.

Seriously, we have more problems because we bicker with each other than we have with terrorists blowing us up.

-R. S. of UC
England My England
26-08-2004, 14:44
At the risk of having people here brand me as stupid, I do have to suggest the following... While al-Qaeda may have the technology to do this, maybe it's just a bunch of really bored teenagers and theyre just calling it as such...... (I know it sounds stupid, but, anything to kill boredom, right?)

You're quite right. Just because people are calling it electronic 'jihad', doesn't mean it has anything to do with Osama and chums. While I don't doubt the 'slims capability to do such a thing, I reckon they probably have bigger fish to fry.

This 'electronic jihad' will be no more than a bunch of pimply faced 13 year old pin-d**ks trying to waste people's time.