Indeed, when information specialists at the University of Arizona did a quantitative content analysis that compared eighty-six extremist Middle Eastern Web sites with fifty maintained by U.S. federal and state governments, the extremists scored much better in key areas. "We found that terrorist/extremist groups exhibited similar levels of Web knowledge as U.S. government agencies ... [and] had a strong emphasis on multimedia usage and their Web sites employed significantly more sophisticated multimedia technologies than government Web sites," the researchers wrote in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
The USA war effort is suffering from a lack of imagination for the tactical use of the Internet, time after time they have managed to turn victory into defeat, by ignoring opportunities, not exploiting weaknesses, not exploiting or activating Internet Resources and Assets currently active and available. Ignoring taticial assets, and failure to deploy in this venue.
Its like they don't know what to do.
The private sector is performing many of these services on a Pro-bono level, and are under achieving because they are under funded and under staffed.And lack of response by the US government, leaves a huge gap in the flank or the war effort. The private sector lacks even the basic communications channels to report findings, subject, and perps in a timely manner. While foreign Intelligence sources are eager for this data.
It isn't that USA can't win the information cyber war, they don't seem to know how to fight it. Their effort, "Freedom Journal Iraq" so far reminds me of scenes from "Good Morning America" with Robbin Williams, the effort so far has been equal to Robbin William's officer to produce a failed entertaining radio broadcast, off target, out dated, and off key.
We should not surrender the Internet.
"The keyboard equals Kalashnikov"
Gerald
More here:
( sourced : Internet a Front Line in Terror War, Reports Warn
By Fred Lucas
The Internet: Midwife of Global Radicalism?
by Caryle Murphy..others and My comments )
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