Mexican Drug War Spreading to the Web

[harvey007]

Source: Fox News Latino

Cartels are using Facebook and Twitter to find out information on potential victims and to track them down.
“They use them as intelligence sources, I suppose, to gather information on people,”
said Dr. Tony Payan, associate professor of political science at the University of Texas-El Paso.




Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/08/11/mexican-drug-war-spreading-to-web/

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1. Reason #503 why I will never use Facebook or any similar sites.

I find it really strange that people who would be aghast at the government snooping on their private information would turn around and login to the absolutely biggest information data mining and correlation machine so far.

PB

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2. ...so your drug cartel doesn't get busted?

:rofl:

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3. We ship our drugs...the old-fashioned way!

Which is to say, up our asses. If the drugs you use haven't been up someone's ass, you're being cheated.

PB

[trud]

4. Darwin wins again

I mean, if you were hiding from a drug cartel, would you create a facebook page or twitter account?

[pam4water]

5. What it's not just the CIA using facebook? Puts up link to the Onion CIA facebook spoof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0