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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 19:30 schreef George-Butters het volgende:
intrigerend!
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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 19:44 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:

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een consumptiemaatschappij

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 20:54 schreef pberends het volgende:
De AIVD tapt alles...

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 20:54 schreef pberends het volgende:
De AIVD tapt alles...

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Terrorism and the 'Net
US cybersecurity chief's sudden resignation comes as terrorists increasingly use the Internet as a tool.
by Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

While Al Qaeda and its affiliates have always used e-mail and the Internet, these electronic tools have become "even more important in recent years," the BBC reported Wednesday. As the US and its allies have stepped up pressure on the Al Qaeda leadership, the terrorist organization has been forced to evolve into a more decentalized institution. With this less formal structure in place, the Internet has become a key tool for such an organization to use.

'They lost their base in Afghanistan, they lost their training camps, they lost a government that allowed them do what they want within a country. Now they're surviving on Internet to a large degree. It is really their new base,' says terrorism expert Peter Bergen.

For instance, The Taipei Times reports that Al Qaeda has a "virtual university" that teaches "electronic jihad."

This increasing dependence on the Internet by terrorists was one reason that many lawmakers and security experts were alarmed by the sudden resignation last week of Amit Yoran, director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division. Computer Weekly reports that Mr. Yoran had become so upset with the lack of attention the Bush administration was paying to cybersecurity, that he reportedly only gave one day's notice - in fact, the day before his resignation Yoran had appeared at a function in Washington promoting cybersecurity.

While Yoran said he left for "family reasons," and the DHS said he left for "professional" reasons, the computer news website, The Register, reported last Friday that Yoran had become "increasingly frustrated" with his job's "lack of political clout," even though it is the top computer security job in the US.

'The department has had an identity crisis on cybersecurity for some time now,' said Roger Cressey, a security consultant who worked in the Clinton and Bush administrations. 'They have not figured out how to approach this issue in a systematic way.'

The computer blog Ars Technica reports Yoran was the fourth computer security czar in a little more than a year to quit over the issue of how much attention the Bush administration was paying to cybersecurity. The turnover started in January 2003, when White House "cybersecurity czar" Richard Clarke left the job for the same reaons that Yoran did.

The Bush administration has acted quickly to replace Yoran. The Washington Post reports Thursday that Andy Purdy, who served as deputy cyber-security director under Yoran, will act as interim director. But security experts in Washington said that it doesn't matter who gets the job if the conditions don't change.

Paul Kurtz, executive director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance and a former White House computer-security official, said, "It's hard to find somebody in this town who doesn't get along with Andy,' but "it's the position, not the person, that counts. Andy is a terribly nice guy and will obviously try to do the best thing, but without authority and without the ability to reach up into [the department] and to reach out among other federal agencies as a more senior person, it's going to be difficult for him to do the job,' Kurtz said.

The National Journal's Technology Daily reports that Yoran's resignation, which it says caused "quite a stir" at senior levels of the Bush administration, has "breathed new life" into congressional efforts to elevate the position within the DHS.

A new, trimmed provision to raise cybersecurity's status in Homeland Security appeared in Monday's Rules Committee version of an intelligence reform bill, H.R. 10. The new provision would elevate cyber security two levels, from director to assistant secretary, and give the new assistant secretary primary authority over the National Communications System.

Meanwhile, the Straits Times of Singapore looks at how a person called Abu Maysara Al-Iraqi is using the Internet to become one of the key information points for the insurgents in Iraq. He is a spokesman for Islamist militant Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, who is reportedly building his own global terrorist network primarily through the Internet. The Oakland Tribune reports on how Mr. Al-Iraqi is using a legitimate technology developed in the San Francisco Bay area to get the insurents' often violent messages out to the world.

But last month, Abu Maysara [Al-Iraqi] found a silver bullet – a technology called YouSendIt. Developed by three Canadian programmers in Silicon Valley, it allows senders to create multiple links to a large file so it can be viewed by an unlimited number of people. Users type in their e-mail addresses, upload the file and YouSendIt creates a free, anonymous Web page for them. To distribute videos of the contractors who were kidnapped last month, Abu Maysara created dozens of links using YouSendIt and sent them to chat rooms all over the Internet. He compressed the files, or made them as small as possible, investigators said, so that they could be copied more quickly. By the time US officials got word of the videos, they had been anonymously copied from computer to computer.

In an opinion piece in the Straits Times, Carl Skadian cites US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz as saying recently that the Internet has become one of the prime tools of the terrorists. Mr. Skadian writes that it "gives a whole new awful meaning to the words 'online community.'

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"Onze volgende aanvallen zullen een hel zijn voor de vijanden van God. Zij zetten een bloedige oorlog in gang tegen diegenen die de ongelovige Amerikanen in de regio steunen",

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 22:00 schreef pberends het volgende:
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Right, ongelovige Amerikanen...

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:15 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:
* DoG is playing : SAGA - Humble Stance

loha lieverdtjes

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:33 schreef George-Butters het volgende:
Tijd om niet achter mijn pc te zitten. Toedelidokie ladies and gentlemen!

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:31 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:

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hola. Wanneer begint de sail ook alweer?

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:40 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:

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Sail is 17 t/m 22 augustus zo uit mijn hoofd

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:45 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:

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aha, okee, dat is nog even vooruit

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:47 schreef Maerycke het volgende:

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Ik was nog van plan te gaan, maar weet niet of dat wel zo'n goed idee is Sowieso vraag ik me af of er veel mensen gaan als de dreigementen aanhouden.

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:47 schreef kLowJow het volgende:

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Waar gaan we heen liefste? .

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:47 schreef Maerycke het volgende:

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Ik was nog van plan te gaan, maar weet niet of dat wel zo'n goed idee is Sowieso vraag ik me af of er veel mensen gaan als de dreigementen aanhouden.

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:47 schreef Maerycke het volgende:

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Ik was nog van plan te gaan, maar weet niet of dat wel zo'n goed idee is Sowieso vraag ik me af of er veel mensen gaan als de dreigementen aanhouden.

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:48 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:

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Das wel mooi, des te minder ik hoef te doen

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:48 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:

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Das wel mooi, des te minder ik hoef te doen

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:48 schreef Maerycke het volgende:

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Ik had toch wel gedacht dat je blij zou zijn me te zien zeg!

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:49 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:

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tuurlijk maar ik blijf een links werkschuw stuk vreten natuurlijk

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:49 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:

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tuurlijk maar ik blijf een links werkschuw stuk vreten natuurlijk

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Op vrijdag 22 juli 2005 23:50 schreef Maerycke het volgende:

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Ik hoop dat het écht onwijs druk wordt!