India’s Terrorists Track the Worlds Reaction Using Their Blackberry’s
Written on 30th November 2008
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
In an ironically hypocritical turn, India’s terrorists used Western made technology to highlight their hatred for the West and what it represents.
Amongst granades, ammunition magazines, credit cards, food rations and thousands of dollars of cash found in terrorists backpacks lay one vital piece of tracking equipment – Blackberry’s.
After all cable television feeds had been cut to the two luxury hotels and office block, the gunmen had planned ahead and used Blackberry’s to monitor the situation and global reaction. The terrorists used the smartphone to track the status of their other planned sites of terror and the police/army response. Also however, the used the now iconic device to see first hand the public reaction to the atrocities, both locally and worldwide.
It’s difficult to be certain as to whether the Blackberry’s were a well planned pre-thought or a clever after-thought once the television feeds had been cut. Either way, the young assassins were tech savvy enough to know that amongst thousands of foreigners probably lay hundreds of blackberry devices – all perfectly powerful enough to give them real time updates of the horrific action & anti-terrorist re-action around them.
RIM, all publicity is good publicity?
via Courier Mail
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By Martín Aberastegue on Nov 30, 2008
This is bulls**t, it’s obvious that they would track the news about the attacks to see people and government, this is the same to say “terrorist use Google to do their online searches”… Courier mail just needed to write something with the words “India” and “terrorist” and it seems to be the perfect dumb story…
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By Adam on Nov 30, 2008
This post is pretty terrible. I am sure that RIM are pretty upset that terrorists used their devices to keep themselves up to date. This post had no actual content that I can think anybody would be interested in, it is enough to stop the feed for me.
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By Mahesh CR on Nov 30, 2008
The devil can quote the scripture for its purpose…to use a Blackberry is trivial detail..
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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Nov 30, 2008
the western world generally has an old fashioned image of terrorists. We think they only use violence, explosives and guns to achieve their goals. It is becoming clear tthat they use modern technology too: portable phones, Twitter & blackberries and the Internet. The fact that the government only cut the cables and not mobile networks just proves this.
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