Social media is especially valuable to Islamic State since it allows anyone to join this media mujahideen. Since 2011, members of jihadist forums have issued media strategies that encourage the development of this ‘media mujahidin’. The ‘frontier’ of holy war is shifting to the virtual front: increasingly, professional media teams are embedded with Islamic State fighting units, and they draw on a global network of media supporters. None more so than Islamic State – currently the main concern for our security services. Terrorists are, by and large, early adopters of any technology that can help them achieve their objectives.
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For example, Anders Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who murdered seventy-seven people in 2011, wrote a manual that set out best practice recommendations regarding the use of Tor and Virtual Private Network services. Ways of evading surveillance and detection are – predictably enough – frequently discussed on forums and websites, by terrorists and serious and organized criminals of all types. More recently, the al-Qaeda associated al-Fajr Technical Committee has released Amn al-Mujahid for Windows, which encrypts emails, instant messages and SMS. It is routinely updated and promoted in Jihadist magazines. This was the first purpose-made Islamist encryption software, primarily used for email communications. Back in 2007, al-Qaeda’s Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) released their own encryption software: Asrar al-Mujahedeen. Islamist terrorists have long used a variety of types of encryption software in their communications.
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