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Oh what a tangled web ..

G’day, yes it’s Leif on one of my rare posts at this dusty lanolin-stained unfashionable z-list outpost.

I should be rapping on DigitalWildWest.com, but this greasy rag finds a more, shall I say, circumspect readership (and I use the term cautiously, since Dr. Collin says most arrive anonymized searching/seeking “silicon sex doll.”

What stirred me?

Security blogger Dancho Danchev’s irresistible high-priest disdain of the filth that soil this most marvelous of humankind’s creations, our webbly cyber world. In particular his derisive shout to some hapless malware pathetic, who he begrudgingly admires as probably raking it in, cash-wise.

And then his mention of “Cyber Jihadists.”

WTF? As in Weapons of Transient Futility, otherwise, What IS That? Global Islamic Media Front? Did I miss something when I slept through a scene in Life of Brian?

You can stick those two words adjacent and imagine that a cyber jihadist does to the www what his bomb belted brother does to your downtown market at peak hour. But I still needed more of a handle.

I have an image oracle that brings me up to speed on anything in the known (and/or Rumsfeld’s unknown) universe.

Nothing so crude as a Google image search, it generates a cyber montage paralleling real-world stirrings – much the way of noise2news.com with language. The image oracle illustrates not only this article, it seductively also does most of SheepOverboard, a mechanized eking of picturesque essence from obscurity – counterpoised, of course, by Angel Boligán’s acerbic crayon.

As gleaned from the nearest pix above, “cyber jihadist” leads to “E-Jihad” the program. And that is, you ask ..?  The full story awaits here:

JIHAD is the term used for struggle against evil. Electronic jihad or simply, E-JIHAD, is the jihad in cyberspace against all the propagandas and false allegations against the message of truth. E-JIHAD is the struggle in cyber space against all false and evil disciplines, ideology and forces of evil.

Sigh. I guess there’s just a limit to how many ways the oppressed can describe their oppression. And as much as we cyber-sophisticates might sneer at the naive confused gibberish marking your average religious crusader (on both sides – and one man’s devout is another’s infidel) if you were on the receiving end of Dubya’s ideology for the last 8 years, you’d be feeling a touch Jihadic yourself.

On a purist note, Dancho’s the man. From his wrap of cyber Jihadist hacking teams, this conclusion (is this not command of the milieu?):

The bottom line, script kiddies cyber Jihadists dominate, PSYOPS fill the gaps where there’s zero technical know-how, mentors are slowly emerging and providing interactive tutorials to reach a wider audience, localization of knowledge from English2Arabic is taking place the way propaganda is also localized from Arabic2English, and there’s also an ongoing networking going on between cyber Jihadists and Turkish hacktivists converting into such on a religious level. Case in point – MuslimWarriors.Org defacement campaigns with “anti-infidel” related messages.

I getcha.