Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
Hey AG Shurtleff, it could have been worse. You could have done what Rep. Hoekstra did
Or you could have accidentally enabled terrorists in their work.
A recent military intelligence report identifies 3 scenarios under which terrorists could leverage Twitter:
Scenario 1: A terrorist cell could use Twitter to pass coded messages back in forth almost in real time. They can also easily incorporate cell phones and their camera/ video functions.
Scenario 2: A terrorist could pass along images and messages to a suicide bomber cell phone via twitter to precisely time an attack.
Scenario 3: Terrorists could monitor the Twitter accounts of military personnel and obtain information that could be used for identity theft, hacking, or actual attacks.
