Mumbai terrorists used BlackBerry's to communicate
Posted by DarthDilbert at 12/02/2008 03:44:00 PM
One of the rucksacks carried by one of the terrorists, later recovered by commandos, contained a Mauritian national's identity card, Chinese-made grenades, seven ammunition magazines, 400 spare rounds of ammunition, seven credit cards from different banks, dry rations and thousands of dollars in cash. However amid the arsenal of military hardware, it was the use of humble mobile phones and internet technology that proved a key weapon – one which caught the anti-terrorist forces by surprise.
The use of BlackBerrys by the terrorists to monitor international reaction to the atrocities, and to check on the police response via the internet, provided further evidence of the highly organised and sophisticated nature of the attacks.
I find this remarkable seeing as how back in July the Telecoms Secretary Siddhartha Behura said that BlackBerry's were not a threat whatsoever:
The government on Wednesday said there was no threat, whatsoever, from Blackberry services, even as security agencies insist on intercepting data sent through the service as they fear it could be used by terrorists. "There is no threat from Blackberry services," Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura said in New Delhi.
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