Hey DU! Chertoff says the Internets is turning people into terrorists

Chertoff: The internet is turning people into terrorists
Snip from a Reuters item:

Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday.

"We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International Association of the Chiefs of Police. "They can train themselves over the internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites."

Chertoff pointed to the July 7, 2005 attacks on London's transit system, which killed 56 people, as an example a home-grown threat. To help gather intelligence on possible home-grown attackers, Chertoff said Homeland Security would deploy 20 field agents this fiscal year into "intelligence fusion centers," where they would work with local police agencies.

via boingboing: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/18/chertoff_the_interne.html

Direct link (Wired): http://wired.com/news/politics/0,71958-0.html?tw=wn_index_16

Maybe if we fill the tubes with more movies, we can clog them up so the terrorists can't get through them!

back on the front burner after the election. I just heard that Joe Lieberman made the statement that he would change his vote, and if i remember correctly it was only held back by one vote.

That can't have my internet!!!!

on the threat to the internet.

It appears to be a warning of where this administration is willing to go to curtail political opposition. It is a small step from preventing bomb making instructions to stopping the voices calling for peacefull regime change. Soon even DU may be considered a terrorist breeding ground and shut down. Then what? I've never thought of my country as being gone but now it appears that we are watching a descent into fascism. Wow.

so where do we go because we can't get info from MSM - why the internets - of course they want to shut it down....

Jesus we are doomed....

even though I make jokes about tubes.

I was the first to recommend it and I kicked it by posting to it....

The news will spread, internet or no internet.

Oh wait a minute, the dumbass signed the Military Bill thing yesterday, didn't he?

get your servers and databases backed up to a FOREIGN location ASAP! I suggest somewhere in the Netherlands.

when they pull the plug here, you'll be up and running out of the country

we have to move it to the streets? right?

Certainly not ALL internets would turn people into bogeymen, would they? :scared:

Well gee, what's a little ol' American like me to do? Is it time to wrap myself in saran wrap again? Eat powdered milk? Ohhh the fear. Why oh WHY must terrorists suddenly show up before EVERY SINGLE ELECTION SINCE 9/11???

:eyes:

... is probably in for a big surprise.

Not only (IMHO) is this a skill that you really should learn from a person to pick up valuable skills, but I'm sure by now the 'net is flooded with plans for explosives that are just -slightly- off...

Didn't the CIA or FBI do that in the 60s? Send around bogus copies of the "Anarchist Cookbook" with the recipes for explosives and drugs just wrong enough to kill anyone trying to use them?

:nuke:

If we could just go back to the good old days of 1951 when everybody knew their place...geez.

Too bad he won't be able to charge them with conspiracy.


Chertoff must be an idiot to let someone make him read that.

obviously

:cry:


Quite honestly, if they weren't stripping us of the Constitution, they wouldn't have to worry about seditious citizens. Dumb fucks!

:freak:

:wtf: Are we going to turn into China now, where people won't have free access of information? My question is this: When the right-wing talk about "freedom" what exactly do they mean by it? Because they've been working overtime taking away the freedoms I care the most about.

Now those are some radical websites.

Dap

Iran's internet service providers (ISPs) have started reducing the speed of Internet access to homes and cafes based on new government-imposed limits, a move critics said appeared to be part of a clampdown on the media.

An official said last week that ISPs were now "forbidden" by the Telecommunications Ministry from providing Internet connections faster than 128 kilobytes per second (KBps), the official IRNA news agency reported. He did not give a reason.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-10-18T143910Z_01_BLA852298_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAN-INTERNET.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R1-MostViewed-3

and potentially violent skills over the internet"


"Potentially violent skills" - Typing faster than a speeding bullet.

"Develop radical ideologies" - Thinking for one's self.

OMG! ;)

He knows WHAT about fighting terrorists ? ? He knows WHAT about technology ? ? He is another in a series of people appointed to positions in which they have no competence whatsoever.

That should be worth something.

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