A recent article in Government Computer News discusses how terrorists are using the technologies that the United States has created against us. The most obvious example being airliners, but other technologies such as chat rooms, GPS and the internet are cited. The article goes on to discuss how the Naval Postgraduate School is working with DHS and ONR on "precipitating technologies" to decloak the terrorists.
Pierce cited technological innovations such as unmanned aerial vehicles and microsatellites as “potentially very disruptive,” he said it is equally important to develop social science constructs by studying how terrorists form worldwide networks.
This brings to mind the recent discussion on the MOU between the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Science Foundation to mine chat rooms for terrorist activities. Properly constructed these initiatives could represent a constructive multi-agency cooperative effort to address the threat posed by international terrorism.
Posted by TomJones at January 19, 2005 12:16 PM | TrackBack