But What Did They Think Of The New Weezer Release?
“Al-Qaeda sympathizers are using Orkut, a popular, worldwide Internet service owned by Google, to rally support for Osama bin Laden, share videos and Web links promoting terrorism and recruit non-Arabic-speaking Westerners, according to terrorism experts and a survey of the sites.”
- Kasie Hunt, USA Today, “Osama bin Laden fan clubs build online communities”
On the other hand, they may not want to accept new friends from Fort Meade, Maryland …
“… much social-network research involves simply trawling large databases for telltale behaviors or activities that might be typical of a terrorist. In this case the links among people are not based on actual relationships at all, but on an “affiliation network,” in which individuals are connected by virtue of taking part in a similar activity.”
- Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times Magazine, “Can Network Theory Thwart Terrorists?” which discusses how the NSA uses network analysis.
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H/t: on the Orkut piece, Good Morning Silicon Valley, who headlined their post “Welcome, OsamaThaBomba! You are connected to 14,020,971 terrorist sympathizers through 2000 friends. Grow your network now!”
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