3. IT use: The Internet
• The internet has opened many doors for a
variety of stakeholders, such as:
– Students: Education
– Scientists: Investigation
– Teachers: Teaching, learning
– Business: Communication, transaction, cyber market
– Terrorists: Ease of access, lack of regulations, vast
audiences, fast flow of data & communication,
anonymity, etc.
4. Terrorism and the Internet: Ease of
access
Ease of access is the fact that as large
range of people can access an
amount of information, even from
the most remote location there is.
Meaning that terrorists can hack
almost anyone’s information/data an
steal it or modify it so that it benefits
their cause. So the internet can be a
help to terrorists but terrorizing to
society.
5. Terrorism and the Internet: Lack of
Regulation
The lack of regulation is a very important factor in
cyber terrorism, as it allows these people to access
any/all data they need. And if they find themselves
blocked by anything, within moments there is a new
key to open more and more doors. Often within a
company (or a group of data) once you’ve unlocked
the first door the rest are protected less. There are
countries that have little of none internet regulation,
so which laws would you be breaking if the
communication, virus, etc. is sent internationally.
6. Terrorism and the Internet: Vast
Audiences (+ their ignorance)
A large percentage of the population of the
world has access to the internet, meaning that
if a virus is placed at a few locations, in no
time it may have spread around the world
infecting loads of computers that may contain
important data. And worse a
large majority of the people are
highly ignorant in IT, meaning
that they could easily be fooled
into phishing, spyware, etc.
7. Terrorism and the Internet: Fast Flow
of Data & Communication
• The internet is basically known as a
communication source, that allows individuals
to talk to each other across the world within
seconds. Therefore it makes it easier for
terrorists to plan and execute an operation. By
this you cannot find a real clan of people
planning as it is not really necessary, one can
be even at the scene that they want to cause
damage.
8. Terrorism and the Internet: Anonymity
Anonymity is the important factor in cyber terrorism
as it is extremely difficult to find these persons as
with the use of laptops they can change their
location in a matter of minutes (even seconds) even
though they have a single IP address. And if they are
in a remote location to send a squad search they
might have left the area long before they are
reached. There are also cyber-coffees that stop you
from knowing the exact person who used the
computer at the time the virus (or others) was sent.
9. IT use: GPS
Rebels or terrorist can have easy access to GPS through
internet or stealing the system, in the use of GPS they
can locate places where they can target them and
define a strategy to attack. Anyone can use signals
from GPS satellites to launch nuclear weapons, which
can be bought or stolen. A terrorist can launch a cruise
type missile and guide it by a commercially available
packaged.
The use of GPS can guide missiles to target destruction
which means that terrorist and rebels have the
advantage of attacking the world without moving from
their hideout which this complicates on their capture
10. IT use: Encryption
Encryption is a very powerful tool within the
internet, and if most terrorist had the capability
to use the software effectively we would all be in
huge trouble. Encryption acts as an extremely
secure password, which would take a very long
time to decrypt. They could use the encryption
methods to have a totally spy-proof
communication from places far apart. With out
the necessary none-use of keywords that could
possibly alert the anti-terrorist systems. Words
such as “Bomb”, “Osama Bin
Laden”, “President”, etc.
11. IT use: Cell Phones
Cell phones are mechanisms used in the modern days
for communication. Communication are linked
between pairs of mobile phones or land line phone,
therefore rebels and terrorism can communicate
between their accomplices from different nation,
which this automatically can cut down the need to
travel from country to country if they are needed to
communicate. Another advantage for the rebels and
terrorist is that nowadays, modern cell phones have
the ability to send and receive pictures and
photographs which rebels and terrorists can use this
method to send pictures to their accomplices and see
who is their target and to who they are attacking.
12. IT use: Cell Phones
Rebels and terrorists have the ability to surveill people
communication by interfering the phone signals. This can be
very helpful for them because they would know about anything
and future plans from the people. For instance if the rebels and
terrorists decides to interfere with US communication, they
would know what are they planning, where might they attack,
who are they planning to arrest, hearing classified files etc. In
more killing method, rebels and terrorists can use mobile
phones to create a single personal bomb; they can replace the
speaker of the phone with the detonator of the phone, so when
the phones receives the signal of call and send electricity where
the speaker normally is to produce the sound, instead of
producing a sound it would explode affecting its surrounding.
13. IT use: Google Earth
Google earth is a type of program which shouldn’t be accessed
from the internet for any user. This is because it is based on
satellite photo shooting of the earth structure and country
location. Therefore if rebels and terrorists have easy access to
this program, they would know better about the earth structure
and plan some sort of attack to a specific nation that can cause a
vital damage. Other advantage for the rebels and terrorists is
that they would know the exact location if they are planning on
kidnap someone important, for instance the US president, the
rebels and terrorists would see in what building is he located,
plan some strategies to avoid eye contact from the guards and
polices, see what transportation could be use and what road to
take to go to the building and leave the building.
