Recently on the 13th of November , terrorists who were affiliates of the Islamic state or ISIS , Killed over a 120 innocent people in paris at different locations. The Most striking part about the terror attack was that terrorist attacked several locations simultaneously in a coordinated fashion indicating that this attack was long planned. What was more striking was that not long ago in the November of 2008, In the financial capital of India – Mumbai , 10 terrorists also unleashed a wave coordinated terror attacks on the most symbolic locations of the city such as the Taj palace hotel, Oberoi Trident Hotel, CST terminal, the Leopold cafe and some other locations as well. These locations were known to be tourist hotspots, frequented by western tourists or being crowded areas to maximise casualties. the most striking part is the similarities between the two attacks and how terrorists used off the shelf communication devices to plan and execute these acts of terror, all whilst evading the eyes of the intelligence agencies tasked with preventing such attacks. In Mumbai terrorists used google earth and google maps to plan their points of attacks and the hotel website which gave them a virtual tour of the hotel. Whereas, reports are emerging that the terrorists used Playstation 4 networks to communicate and plot the terror attacks in paris, the playstation 4 networks are notoriously hard to monitor and crack and intelligence and security agencies have not been paying too much attention to them as to things like facebook or whatsapp or other forms of communication vis smartphones. Whilst there are several similarities in both the attacks , the similarities that I have mentioned are specifically related to what we study in class and we did discuss the mumbai attacks and how technology is agnostic and can be used for both good or evil. Another special similarity between these two attacks was that terrorists in both instances had decided to attack multiple locations simultaneously in order to spread the security forces as opposed to allowing them to converge on one location.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34829690
Link to a bbc article commenting about the similarities