Mumbai Terrorists Relied on New Technology for Attacks - NYTimes.com
Satellite phone, GPS, Google maps and VOIP appear to all be believed to have been used by the Mumbai terrorists.
The article also notes that the terrorists were in contact with Pakistan during the siege, and could get updates as to where the Indian military from their bosses who were watching TV coverage.
I must admit, I thought it was foolish of the Australia guy holed up in the hotel to keep ringing and talking to Australian media for this very reason. (Not that his calls would have made Pakistani TV, I guess, but you never know who's watching Australian TV too.)
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There were also messages on Twitter asking people not to post messages describing what soldiers etc were doing. I'm not worried about this too much (at least not in a "This is the end of the world" way), but it does show that ordinary people are going to have to aspire to a higher level of responsibility than previously.
This is a good thing, IMO. If people have to think "I have responsibility for making sure that terrorists don't get information from me that could be useful" that makes them less likely to act in a powerless, infantilised way.
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