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No doubt the issue raised by Maria Farooq in Defending the Global Village is very pertinent to India. The chronology of events over the last fourteen years shows it clearly- ICT has been used as a tool  for numerous terrorist attacks.  But I couldn’t agree more that despite the fact that […]

With a few notable exceptions, the weapons and tactics of terrorists have not changed, but the perceptions of threat and the vulnerability of modern societies have. [issuu width=420 height=299 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120131145704-5ddfa9a8e8004d539af4227605d232ec name=the_changing_face_of_terrorism username=futurechallenges tag=cybercrime unit=px id=c4c498e3-b1e5-2a53-400e-880bbff742ea v=2]

Almost every new technology developed has brought great benefits attached with some risks. To each ‘technology’, there is an ‘anti- technology’, making it a double edged weapon. But whatever be the risks, the progress just carries on, and new methods are found to tackle the risks. The phenomenal growth of […]

The internet is a powerful political instrument, which is increasingly employed by terrorists to forward their goals. The five most prominent contemporary terrorist uses of the net are information provision, financing, networking, recruitment, and information gathering. This article describes and explains each of these uses and follows up with examples. […]

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are extending the arena within which extremists and terrorists operate. Among the most active participants are Islamists and the Far Right, whose increasingly networked formats are enhanced by such technologies. These provide them with new benefits: interconnectivity; anonymity; cheapness; power enhancement; new audiences. [issuu width=420 […]