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Cyber Spies Invade the Shadowy World of Would-Be Terrorists
(Sydney Morning Herald-Australia) Jason Koutsoukis - Israeli intelligence consultant Gadi Aviran's company Terrogence employs a small army of cyber spies who infiltrate the password-protected Internet chat rooms and online forums frequented by would-be bombers who want to plot, plan and discuss potential attacks. ''In the operations room here we have people who are fluent in Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese and English,'' Aviran says. ''We knock on the front door of these websites and chat rooms, we build trust, then we enter and start listening. As far as anyone else is concerned, we are them.'' ''We are present in some fairly dark corners of the Internet, monitoring, gathering information, watching discussions unfold in real time about how to plan attacks on mostly Western targets,'' he says.