Al Qaeda used the internet to spread propaganda and connect scattered members in a borderless online community. Through websites, videos, and encrypted messages, Al Qaeda leaders like Bin Laden were able to communicate and spread their ideology to a wider audience without needing material resources. However, governments have also used internet censorship and filtering to control the spread of extremist ideologies, creating a "splinternet" of fragmented information online.

1. Al Qaeda
And the way it used the Internet

2. SUMMARY
• The flipside vision
• Where is Al Qaeda ?
• Al Qaeda and the Internet
• Splinternet
• Next level propaganda
• The way Bin Laden communicated
• Conclusion

3. THE FLIPSIDE VISION
• Links people ✓
• Knowledge ✓
• Entertainment ✓
• Fear ✗
• Terror ✗
• Propaganda ✗

4. WHERE IS AL QAEDA ?
BEFORE « NOW »
Scattered in small numbers All linked
Don’t know each other Easy communication
Approximately same ideas One big movement = more powerful
➔ Borderless countries

5. AL QAEDA AND THE INTERNET
• Messages of fear
• Videos
• No more material resources
➜ Splinternet
• Easy to reach people
➜ Propaganda

6. SPLINTERNET
• Control
• Filter world view
• Selective reading

7. AN EXAMPLE OF SPLINTERNET
• China
• Site censorship
• Guess the site !

8. NEXT LEVEL PROPAGANDA
• Control the message
• No censorship
• The way
• Where
• Reach way more people
• Publishing of writings
• DIY
• Without doing anything

9. THE WAY BIN LADEN COMMUNICATED
• Fear of being traced
• No internet and phone
• Better security
• So how ?
• Writes on notepad
• Courier (messenger)
• Internet Cafe
• Encryption
• Algorithm
• Steganography

10. CONCLUSION
One of the greatest paradoxes of the web :
APPLAUDED FOR IT CAN BE USED FOR THE ILL
➔ BECOMING VULNERABLE

11. THANK YOU FOR PAYING ATTENTION !