- NEW DELHI - Now we know how
jehadis get their kicks. CIA chief George Tenet let it out of the brown
paper bag during a session with US Senators. Osama bin Laden and other
Islamicists, it seems, use cyberporn to send messages secure from Western
intelligence's peeping Toms.
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- It's known that terrorists are handy with encryption,
e-mail and the Internet. Here's how they talk dirty, electronically.
Terrorist
in Kandahar uses software to code a message. He then hides this digital
strand inside a more innocuous digital packet and posts it at a
pre-determined
website. Terrorist in New York City downloads the packet and uses similar
software to unscramble the message.
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- Here's the fun bit: the favoured digital packet to hide
such messages is a picture of an undraped female form. Of course, when
the picture is posted on a porn site it'll be downloaded thousands of
times.
But others won't know there's a message here that's more than skin-deep
and they'll lack the decrypting keys.
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- One Indian cyber expert, Ravi V. Prasad, says, "Such
groups use porn sites because it would be the last place someone would
expect Islamic fundamentalists." The second favourite are sports
sites.
Again, this runs against the Taliban grain and the large volumes of site
visitors provide good cover.
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- Spy thriller fans will understand. The porn website has
become the 'drop' -- the dustbin or station locker where Cold War spooks
used to leave messages.
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- Islamic terrorists have also discovered e-commerce. A
Los Angeles Times article called the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba "the most
accomplished
Internet fund-raiser" among terrorist groups. Their website provides
a bank account in Pakistan for donations. Lashkar has done so well it plans
to open a bank. It's big bucks.
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- One jihadi website, azzam.com, raises money for the
Taliban
to puncture UN sanctions and asks for a minimum donation of $20,000.
Business
is good: it's advertising for a web designer.
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- Militants embrace the e-advantage. Bin Laden began using
encrypted e-mail six years ago, when he learnt US intelligence was tapping
his satellite phone. Later, Bin Laden declared mastering hi-tech "a
religious duty." Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas, said last
year, "We will use whatever tools we can - e-mail, the Internet --
to facilitate jihad." So much porn no doubts helps stoke the fires
of jihad among militant ranks, mostly young males.
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- So, when next you download the file, Britney in Birthday
Suit, you may get a bomb manual with the blonde, digitally inserted with
a spamimic.com programme and scrambled with pgpi.com software. And a CIA
background check may follow to find if you are dangerous or just
depraved.
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