Internet as a Tool for Terrorists

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Based on the recently researchs which published in FBI official website, The use of the Internet by terrorists has increased in the past nine years and the number of websites operated by terrorist organizations has increased from 12 in 1998 to more than 4,800 today.




After a search on the Internet and reading articles about cyber terrorism, I find that terrorists use the Internet in some areas like data mining, networking with a wrong purpose, mobilization, the distribution of  online manuals and instructions, planning for their target and try to have a corporation with other terrorists. They draw information from personal and government sites and communicate with others through e-mail and chat rooms. Based on some reports one of the major way which terrorists most of the time relies on that is the process of hiding data inside other data, for instance, hiding the map of  a targeted building in a digital song file.




Now the question is that what is the solution?
Based on all of these assumption, government organizations find a way for hyper computers to remain safe,reliable and trustable. They isolated defense and intelligence computers and physically not connected them to the Internet. In the other hand, businesses and individuals protect their computers through firewalls

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