Saturday, June 12, 2004

Wired.  A relatively tame, but relatively sophisticated, global guerrilla op using spam as a propoganda vehicle. The messages -- which appeared to blame immigrants, prisoners and welfare recipients for Germany's problems -- hit recipients in California, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands, according to initial reports on antispam mailing lists...But it wasn't the context of the messages that had some observers troubled. Rather, it was the method by which they were transmitted: through spam zombies. 9:58:36 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

More on the errors in the 2003 terrorism report.  Not a good start for our TTIC...  During an appearance with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh at the State Department June 10, the secretary was asked how the inaccuracies in the report occurred. "It was a combination of errors both at the new Terrorist Threat Information Center, as they were transitioning into the job and building their organization, and errors prepping the report that, frankly, we didn't catch over here," he said. 9:40:15 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Zayed points to an article on how global guerrillas in Iraq are disrupting medical care.  In certain service-based infrastructures, the entscheidender punkt (in a systemic sense the Systempunkt -- the critical point in a network to concentrate your attack) is the leading professionals: For two months, someone has been kidnapping the best doctors in Iraq. Health officials and doctors estimate that as many as 100 surgeons, specialists and general physicians have been abducted from their homes and clinics since the beginning of April. 9:25:13 AM    Comment_ Trackback []