The VoIP Mag

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. So that you can read the latest updates about VoIP Technology, Providers, VoIP Hardware, our Reviews or Price Comparisons for You to save and many more. Thanks for visiting The New VoIP Magazine!

pReports out of Mumbainbsp;claim the 10 member Lashker-e-Taiba terrorist attack group was steeped in off-the-shelf consumer technology.nbsp; The FBI is reportedly assisting Indian intelligence agencies in deciphering Internet telephony signatures originating in Pakistan./p
pTerrorist controllers/handlers in Pakistan used VoIP to communicate with the Mumbai attack cell, with calls flowing out of Pakistan to satellite phones carried by the group. Conducting traffic analysis – number of calls, type of calls, frequency, and length – on the communications stream between Pakistan and Mumbai seems to have occurred, but it is not clear if Indian authorities have access to any media streams – the actual verbal conversations — of calls.nbsp;/p
pThe FBI is apparently providing support to trace back when calls started coming in to the cell phone. While not being publicly discussed, it is likely that a United States National Security Agency vacuum cleaner system sucked up the broadcasted satellite phone conversations in some form; it is unknown if the communications were encrypted end-to-end, but if they were, it would provide an additional complication to learning the substance of the communications between Lashker-e-Taiba and its Mumbai cell./p
pPlayers on both sides of the terrorist equation – both attackers and defenders – are aware of the use and application of off-the-shelf technologies for attacks.nbsp;In October, a short report by the U.S. Army 304th Military Intelligence open source intelligence team examined the potential use and application of mobile phone and VoIP technologies by terrorist groups.nbsp;While the media generally obsessed over the application of Twitter, the report also highlighted the use of GPS, software to change voices in conjunction with VoIP calls, and Google Maps./p
pFor more:br /- The Economic Times of India briefly a href=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/FBI_files_case_in_Mumbai_terror_attacks/articleshow/3784976.cmsdiscusses/a FBI involvement in VoIP cracking.br /- Ars Technica and the media a href=http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081027-tweets-of-terror-army-microblogs-potential-terrorist-tool.htmlfetished on Twitter/a as a terrorist tool, but the U.S. Army report highlights a href=http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/mobile.pdfother technologies/a as well./p
pstrongRelated articlesa href=http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/taliban-voip-calls/2008-09-15br //a/stronga href=http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/taliban-voip-calls/2008-09-15Taliban VoIP calls – FierceVoIP/abr /a href=http://www.fierceonlinevideo.com/story/youtube-take-down-terrorist-videos/2008-09-19YouTube to take down terrorist videos – FierceOnlineVideo/a/p