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wednesday, january 23
Cyberwar Cybercafes as dens of

Cyberwar
Cybercafes as dens of iniquity. First, they were revealed as the communication system for Al-Qaeda: its agents have been sending instructions and information out from internet cafes in Peshawar. In Garden Grove, near Los Angeles, cybercafes are the haunt of mainly Asian gamers who play networked shoot-em-up video games. Innocent enough, till a killing at one of the cafes and other gangland violence. By the way, what is it about Asians, and networked computer games? I tried to get into an internet cafe in Bangkok a couple of months ago only to find it was full of kids blowing eachother up. Virtually.
NY Times: Mayhem at Cybercafes Shakes a Town in California


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