US Army warns of Twitter dangers

Really. This should be on the onion.<p>"Terrorists known to wear clothes to aid with their terrorism - Clothes are known to keep terrorists warm, helping them to kill innocent civilians. We should think very carefully about banning clothes all together"<p>While we're at it, on a recent flight to the US I was asked "Where are you staying. You need to provide an address etc" (Security reasons apparently - I guess terrorists slip up there and reply "Oh I won't actually be landing... oops!"). I didn't have a clue of the address, I only know how to drive there. The guy checking me in just said "Ah don't worry, I'll put 'holiday inn, SFO'.<p>Either security like that is important, or it's not. If it's not, get rid of it!

"Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences"<p>Vegetarians?<p><i>Vegetarians?!</i> Seriously?

When they were using technologies like PGP there was reason for concern. When they start using stuff like Twitter I think it's great news for all of us non-terrorists.

Better link: the Wired story, which actually provides a link to the FAS report: <a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/terrorist-cell.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/terrorist-cell.html</a>.

I'm more interested in microblogging as a battlefield awareness tool. Anyone know if someone's working on it?

I worry more about Facebook status updates:<p>Osama bin Laden's next attack will kill over 9000.<p>Kefka Palazzo wonders what to do with these 3 statues Sarah Palin gave him.<p>Kurt Godel just read the U.S. Constitution &#60;ContradictionException @ #x1f3b7908&#62;<p>Ken Lay is tired of living in his girlfriend's basement. Faking your own death fucking sucks, man.<p>Eric Cartman is going home.