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Parliamentary Affairs 2006 59(2):283-298; doi:10.1093/pa/gsl009
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Terrorism and the Internet: New Media—New Threat?

Maura Conway

Maura Conway is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Law & Government at Dublin City University

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‘Terrorists use the Internet just like everybody else’

–Richard Clarke – former White House cyber security chief1

THIS article is centrally concerned with what Resnick describes as ‘Political uses of the Net’, the employment of the Internet by ordinary citizens, political activists, organised interests, governments and others to achieve political goals which has little or nothing to do with the Internet per se.2 Specifically, the focus here is on the use(s) made of the Internet by terrorist groups based primarily (though not exclusively) on the United Kingdom’s experience. What are terrorist groups attempting to do by gaining a foothold in cyberspace? A small number of researchers have addressed this question in the past 5 years.3 Probably the best known of these analyses is Gabriel Weimann’s report for the US Institute of Peace entitled www.terrorism.net: How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet (2004). Weimann identifies eight major ways in which, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Core terrorist uses of the Internet: information provision
 

   Core uses: financing
 
DIRECT SOLICITATION VIA TERRORIST WEB SITES.
EXPLOITATION OF E-COMMERCE TOOLS AND ENTITIES.
EXPLOITATION OF CHARITIES AND FRONTS.

   Core uses: networking
 
TRANSFORMING ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES.
PLANNING AND COORDINATION.
MITIGATION OF RISK.

   Core uses: recruitment
 

   Core uses: information gathering
 
DATA MINING.
SHARING INFORMATION.

   Fighting back
 

   The role of law enforcement and intelligence agencies
 
INTELLIGENCE GATHERING.
OTHER INNOVATIONS.

   Hackers and hacktivists
 

   Conclusions
 

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