Everyone in this world know about the famous terrorist organization, Al Qaeda. Their radical Islamic ideology and heinous activities made them well known in a negative manner. They have been learning on how to operate the internet of things in order to be on par with other jihadist or terrorist. These terrorists use the internet to attract like-minded people towards their vision and mission.
Cyberterrorism is not only damaging a particular person, group or country. It actually creates a serious blow to the entire world and may disrupt many aspects of the politics, economics, social and technology for the long run. Al Qaeda had been able to recruit many people from different backgrounds into their organizations to ensure their global initiative or mission can be deployed successfully.
They use the YouTube, video camera and smartphones to spread their propaganda as well as providing virtual military training. Youngsters are more prone to these kind of medium and maybe trapped or lured to believe that they are the truth and should obey to their preaching. These people are not aware that it could ruin their lives and cause tremendous effect to many lives.
Al Qaeda has many ways to communicate their ideology and internet is one of the medium they use. Due to the rapid technology advancement, many people are technology savvy and are able to deliver and create cyberterrorism within split seconds. Therefore, each internet user should always beware with what we are viewing and not simply click any links which can be suspicious.
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