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FarCenter

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Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:27 AM Jan 2017

Terrorists are winning the digital arms race, experts say

Terrorist groups are embracing a huge number of digital tools to recruit members and plan attacks, putting them a step ahead of governments trying to combat them, a group of counterterrorism experts said.

Twitter removed about 250,000 accounts connected with ISIS in one year, but the terrorist group uses 90 other social media platforms, Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol said Tuesday. Terrorist groups have begun to live stream their attacks, and they are using the internet to launch "innovative crowdfunding" campaigns, he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.

"The technology is advanced," Wainwright added. "They know what to do, and they know how to use it."

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3157763/security/terrorists-are-winning-the-digital-arms-race-experts-say.html

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Terrorists are winning the digital arms race, experts say (Original Post) FarCenter Jan 2017 OP
and we have this jerk bdamomma Jan 2017 #1

bdamomma

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1. and we have this jerk
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:40 AM
Jan 2017

wanting to have parades to show our military might???? now terrorists groups are using more sophisticated means like social media.

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