Cyberspies Against Terrorism

Saturday

SHANNEN ROSSMILLER lives in a little town in Montana. She has a good job. But in her spare time she visits chat rooms and tries to befriend potential terrorists. One of her discoveries led to the arrest of Ryan Anderson, an American National Guard soldier (and Muslim convert) who was about to be deployed in Iraq. He was willing to reveal American troop vulnerabilities to Rossmiller, who Anderson believed was a fellow militant Muslim (an Islamist).

Many cases have been cracked or aided by regular everyday citizens who want to do something about terrorism. What started out as a group of unrelated individuals trying to do something has organized itself into the 7Seas web site, a "global security and intelligence team." And they have a track record of successes.

FBI spokesman Bob Wright said, "We've always relied on our good relationship with citizens as our eyes and ears in the community. This is just a new twist on an old theme. It's sort of like a cyber Neighborhood Watch."

Because new surveillance technologies now make it difficult for terrorists to communicate via phones, they have resorted to using the internet. But 7Seas is out to disrupt this. They pretend to be fellow jihadists (or Islamists) in chat rooms and bulletin boards. They gain the confidence of terrorists, who then reveal their plans and identities. 7Seas then turns this information over to the FBI or the Department of Home Security.

Rossmiller goes by another name online. She learned the name of the nearest mosque and put a reminder on her computer when it was prayer time, all in an effort to appear to be a genuine Islamic terrorist.

Todd Stewart of the National Academic Consortium for Homeland Security said, "This is really an intriguing phenomenon. What you're seeing is people taking to heart the calls for increased vigilance."

3 comments:

Anonymous 6:05 PM  

Good one! GO 7Seas! Hack the Jihadi Monkey hackers...

absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
don't pretend to do Jihad

and infiltrate terrorists
to help them meet their virgins


absurd thought -
God of the Universe wants
Islam for everyone

submit to glorious life
slavery and servitude


absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
hack counter-Jihad sites

STOP them from spreading the truth
keep infidels in the dark


absurdthoughtsaboutgod.blogspot.com

haltterrorism.com
.

Anonymous 12:26 AM  

SOME, LIKE THE FBI, YOU CAN TRUST. BUT BE CAREFUL OF "ICE"

Citizen Warrior 9:26 AM  

For those of you who don't know, ICE is Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the above link goes to an article about how ICE turned its back on its own informer.

So the message is, if you find information on terrorists, turn it over to the FBI and not ICE.

If you'd like to know more about how the legal system works and how terrorists are successfully indicted, I recommend the book, Terrorist Hunter.

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