[tobyhill]

It seems they just figured out that they’ve been tracked because the video got out before they planned. I was talking to a computer whiz friend and he said that if the feds got it before it spread throughout the Jihadist community then the feds can put a tracker on the bios for every time the computer turns on it’s being tracked. He said what makes this “cookie” special is that it can’t be removed even if all the hardware is replaced, except for the motherboard.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"It seems they just figured out that they’ve been tracked because the video got out before they planned. I was talking to a computer whiz friend and he said that if the feds got it before it spread throughout the Jihadist community then the feds can put a tracker on the bios for every time the computer turns on it’s being tracked. He said what makes this “cookie” special is that it can’t be removed even if all the hardware is replaced, except for the motherboard."

Really? That's interesting, but I'm not convinced. If you or your whiz friend could provide some links on that topic, it would be much appreciated by many here.

[jveritas]

These people have been logging on the terrorist websites with or without Osama Bin Laden video. Also the terrorists are very aware that they are being monitored. It is totally idiotic on our part to think that the terrorist are not aware that their websites are being monitored. The terrorists do not use their websites or forums to give specific information about an incoming terrorist attacks they use it to recruit terrorists and teach them how to conduct terrorist acts, that is why it must be shut down.

In fact one major terrorist website that have been shut down few times already released a statement few days ago talking about the internet war waged recently against them to shut down their websites and forums, and they admitted in their statements that the campaign to shut the websites down is hurting them.

[Desco]

Unless you “computer whiz friend” is a member of the NSA or CIA and has access to such technology (in which case he’s guilty of some pretty serious violations of government policy and possibly the law by telling you) there is no publicly-known capability to do what you describe. Sounds like conspiracy theorist crap to me.

[syberghost]

This is a video, it’s not a computer. Yes, it’s possible to put hardware in a computer that’s trackable; but this is a file. It’s data. It’s not even software; there’s no BIOS involved, no hardware, no motherboard. This is like saying NBC can put some hardware in a rerun of “Friends” that will allow tracking your TV when you move it.