Israel using Facebook as 'spying tool' in Gaza Hamas has accused Israel of using Facebook to recruit spies from among the Palestinian community in the Gaza strip. For years Israel has maintained a network of agents in the West Bank and Gaza. Those discovered face torture and almost certain execution as collaborators. Hamas reckons fans of Bookface and similar services are …
Remember, if you push for a return to "the good old days" of the 8th Century as so many middle east fundamentalists do, then even allowing an unrelated boy & girl to communicate via Facebook is a Capital Offense. And of course, everyone not from your family or tribe is a spy by definition.
I see we've got a few Middle East experts as well in here. Presumably moonlightning as IT bods?
Not sure what the point is on rehashing a Beeb article anyway. Just post the link.
[ On a marginal note, I like the BBC's characterisation of Hamas as "the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip" ...after having won a majority of seats in the 2006 elections, that is. At least they were democratically elected unlike that Caledonian Christian prime minister in Britain, let alone its own head of state. Not that one sympathises with Hamas, but facts are facts, however inconvenient they might be. ]
Your post hardly shews you to be the world's leading authority on the subject either. More of the same - short, sharp personal opinion. Nor could you resist to hijack the soapbox so that you could have your 5 mins spieling about Gordon Brown and spread your voting fail all over mine and others' internets.
No problem with either post but you would do well to take take some time to read what you are about to post in future and whether that exact same commentary applies equally to you as well.
Well, he'd be really in the brown stuff if he posted an aerial shot of his home from Google maps! Probably a bit more serious than the result when a twit at work did just that on their Facebook page, and then put up the dates she was away on holiday.....
Anway, I'm glad the Israelis have finally found a real use for Facebook. Strange that all those undernourished, energy-starved Gazans can even run PCs, let alone have the energy to wade through Facebook!
Does the author seriously think the rest of the world hasn't been doing this for a very long time with any form of electronic networking product?
Who do you email, who are you linked to on IM products, Social Networks etc... all mapped and traced electronically which makes life so much easier for the Intelligence agencies. And c/o your IP a lot of different identities on different systems can all be mapped to you then to your networks...
So, nothing new or exciting.
Lay my head on the surgeon's table
Take my fingerprints if you are able
Pick my brains, pick my pockets
Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets
Run every kind of test from A to Z
And you'll still know nothin' 'bout me
Run my name through your computer
Mention me in passing to your college tutor
Check my records, check my facts
Check if I paid my income tax
Pore over everything in my C.V.
But you'll still know nothin' 'bout me
You'll still know nothin' 'bout me
You don't need to read no books on my history
I'm a simple man, it's no big mystery
In the cold weather, a hand needs a glove
At times like this, a lonely man like me needs love
Search my house with a fine tooth comb
Turn over everything 'cause I won't be home
Set up your microscope, and tell me what you see
You'll still know nothin' 'bout me
You'll still know nothin' 'bout me
You'll still know nothin' 'bout me etc.
You'll still know zip a-bout me
awwww C'MON!!!!!!!!!! if this isn't an indication that people are the same all over , nothing is. no diff between this and other crimtards posting pics and blogs about what they've stolen , vandalized or abused on the weekend. posting brags and bullshit is done by morons everywhere, to the benefit of LEO's and nat'l sec's all over. just enter them in the darwin award nominations and have done!
BLACK HELI'S W/ GUNS-A-BLAZIN FOR ALL!
"Misinformation is my best friend" -
still you find that Information is your worst enemy? Why do you need such an awful unconvenience?
C'mon, it's all about the hippish style of the media. They (Mossad, FBI, CIA, others) find their natural born working horses at quiet places. Of course, if one's allowing himself to be hired this way (esp. through the internet), one really shouldn't normally expect any long-term relations with an employee. I suppose it's the case when you're used and then thrown away/other or just set up for your counter-ground to take care of your future of a prisoner.
Doesn't worth even money (-;
I spent a chunk of January in Syria. Whenever I dropped into an internet cafe the instant offer was "You want FB?" to which I generally replied: "OK, sure". Attendant swapped HOSTS file to a Western friendly version and Voila! FB works.
I'm supposed to provide passport and have all surf details recorded. Syrian gov hasn't [yet] got a clue about national firewalls. FB is banned as allegedly it is a device used to spy on Syrians.
PS As an aside: I've travelled extremely extensively and have yet to meet a more hospitable people than the Syrians I encountered.
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