On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Julian Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > I must say I find the subject of this post a little ridiculous.
You need to read between the lines. Mining jihadist forums was all the rage approx. 7 years ago. Recently it fell out of fashion, and the new fashionable thing is censorship circumvention. People are still vested in the previous thing, though, and need to publish based on data acquired so far. However, they try to present it as something usable for the new thing, hence the last sentence of the abstract, and the weird title. Of course, “fashion” above is just an euphemism for money (grants in academia). Follow the money (e.g., the BBG — RFA — OTF link with its ridiculous sums thrown at whatever seems suitable to whoever is in charge), and you will see that Western governments decided that subverting hostile regimes (e.g., via sponsoring dissidents) is more effective than prevention of hostile behavior (e.g., via catching wannabe terrorists). -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
