Anonymous declares war on ISIS : 5,500 accounts taken down, personal info leaked

[TargeT]

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Hello citizens of the world, We are Anonymous.

The aftermath of Friday, November 13, 2015.
France is shocked by the events caused by terrorism in the capital.

We first wish to express our sorrow and our solidarity with the victims, the indjured, and their families.

To defend our values and our freedom, we're tracking down members of the terrorist group responsible for these attacks, we will not give up, we will not forgive, and we'll do all that is necessary to end their actions.

During the attacks of Charlie Hebdo, we had already expressed our determination to neutralize anyone who would attack our freedom.
We'll be doing the same now, because of the recent attacks.

We therefore ask you to gather and to defend these ideals.

Expect a total mobilization on our part.

This violence should not weaken us. It has to give us the strength to come together and fight tirrany and obscurantism together.

We are anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.

1roCo91PTuE

It’s often frustrating that our intelligence agencies can’t seem to track down most of ISIS considering how active they are online. Anonymous has decided to join the fight. They want to dox ISIS and send their addresses to Seal Team 6 for the most uber pownage of all time. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"After the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for Friday’s wave of attacks that killed more than 130 people in Paris, the hactivist collective Anonymous declared war on the terrorist faction and its supporters.

"Make no mistake: Anonymous is at war with Daesh," the enigmatic hacker group wrote on Twitter over the weekend, using an alternative name for ISIS.

Make no mistake: #Anonymous is at war with #Daesh. We won't stop opposing #IslamicState. We're also better hackers. #OpISIS

The group uploaded videos in multiple languages, including English and Italian, in which it vowed to "neutralize" the perpetrators of Friday's attacks.



Now, depending on your take of Anonymous, this could be a good thing or a very scary thing...

I'll have to see what kind of publicity falls on this and "who" exactly is being "outed" with this move. Color me suspicious, at first I thought it was "just talk" but it appears that there may be some follow on action from "Anonymous".






'Operation Isis' Anonymous activists begin leaking suspected extremist Twitter account details
Organising under #opISIS and #opParis, the group is attempting to take down the websites and social media accounts of people associated with the group — as well as apparently release personal details of those involved in recruitment
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Anonymous has begun leaking the personal information of suspected extremists, after it "declared war" on Isis in the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris.

The activist collective is assembling lists of the Twitter accounts and websites of extremists, in an attempt to have them taken down. At least one post seen by The Independent contains details including the physical address of a person it claims is an Isis recruiter in Europe.Activists claim to have successfully had accounts and sites taken down already. Accounts associated with the group claimed that it was responsible for the removal of more than 5,500 accounts.

The group appears to have stepped up its tactics for what it called its "biggest operation" ever, in response to the attacks that left 129 dead. Previously it had largely focused on social media accounts.

None of the details that have been shared could be independently confirmed, and Anonymous activists have wrongly identified alleged extremists in the past. But if true the details shared include the physical addresses and names of those the activists claim are involve in recruitment.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/paris-attacks-anonymous-operation-isis-activists-begin-leaking-details-of-suspected-extremist-a6737291.html


I personally am very suspicious of "Anonymous".. I think this will be something interesting to watch if it gains momentum.



Anonymous kicks off cyberwar against ISIS, gets 900 Twitter accounts banned
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Even people who aren’t normally fans of Anonymous probably won’t object to the hacker collective using its powers to take on Islamic State, the hated group of Islamic fundamentalists that has carried out deadly terror attacks in Paris and Beirut over the past week. This is why we’re pleased to see that Anonymous has declared cyberwar on ISIS and has already gotten hundreds of its purported Twitter accounts banned from the service.Metro.co.uk reports that Anonymous this week published a list of 900 ISIS-related Twitter accounts that have subsequently been suspended by Twitter. This first strike is important because ISIS has shown itself adept at using social media as a recruitment and propaganda tool. Even though it’s easy for ISIS to create new Twitter accounts, it takes time to build up a following on new accounts and amplify messages. So while banning Twitter accounts might be a cat-and-mouse game, it can still be very disruptive to the organization’s recruiting methods.

And of course, this is just the first strike against ISIS that Anonymous will unleash. In the past they’ve sparred with the North Korean government, the Church of Scientology, the Westboro Baptist Church and others to varying degrees of success. The group is vowing their biggest operation ever against Islamic State so we’ll just have to wait to see what that entails.
http://bgr.com/2015/11/17/anonymous-vs-isis-twitter-accounts/

[TargeT]

I hope this "noob guide to hacking" has a VERY healthy section on "how to cover your tracks"... what a great way to identify potential "cyber threats"....


Anonymous is crowdsourcing #OpParis, publishes ‘noob guide’ to hacking
n the 24 hours since Anonymous declared “total war” on Islamic State, the loose-knit hacktivist collective has claimed its first victims by way of leaked information of suspected extremists.

If future follows past, Anonymous will no doubt try to win this war through a series of coordinated attacks on IS websites as well as doxxing its leadership, identifying and removing social media accounts used for recruiting and just generally causing mayhem designed to slow the spread of communication between IS cells.

Anonymous is also training the next generation of hacktivists by calling upon the crowd to get involved.

Three guides were posted to an IRC channel used by Anonymous to share information on #OpParis: a “NoobGuide” for anyone that wants to get involved but doesn’t have the hacking knowledge, a “Reporter” guide detailing the setup of a Twitter bot for uncovering IS accounts, and the “Searcher” guide designed to help hacktivists around the world uncover IS websites.

“There should be plenty of work to keep you occupied so get going,” said the Anonymous member that posted the guides to IRC. “If you wish to submit anything of value, place your findings on ghostbin.com and share to the link to one of the channel operators and we can talk about what to do next.”

A quick scan of the guides reveals information on how to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) and man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. They also provide links to the tools to facilitate these attacks.

It should be noted, however, that hacking isn’t a victimless crime, Anonymous has been wrong before, and IS isn’t a joke. We’re not suggesting anyone actually take part in these activities, we’re merely reporting the news.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/11/17/anonymous-is-crowdsourcing-opparis-publishes-noob-guide-to-hacking/


So much publicity... It's been an interesting "back and forth" in only the past couple of days.


ISIS calls Anonymous 'idiots,' offers tips to elude hackers

Islamic terrorist group trades jabs with the hacking collective that vowed to banish it from the Internet after the deadly attacks in Paris.

ISIS, the Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for the deadly Paris attacks, appears unfazed by threats of cyberattacks from hacking collective Anonymous.

In a message circulated via encrypted messaging app Telegram, an account allegedly linked to ISIS called Anonymous "idiots" and offered tips to avoid being hacked by the group. The message, which was posted in English and Arabic, was forwarded to multiple ISIS-affiliated Telegram channels, according to Business Insider.

Anonymous, a loosely affiliated group of Internet users who hack websites and spread leaked information, on Sunday vowed to launch "massive cyberattacks" against ISIS following the brutal terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday. ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the attacks, which left more than 120 dead and hundreds more wounded. Anonymous said in a series of tweets and a YouTube video that it wants to force ISIS into Internet obscurity.
http://www.cnet.com/news/isis-calls-anonymous-idiots-offers-tips-to-elude-hackers/

[Krist]

"I personally am very suspicious of "Anonymous".. I think this will be something interesting to watch if it gains momentum. "
Agreed .When is the jack going to pop out of the box?

[observer]

Thanks for finding this 'door', Target.

I would hope the first target (no pun intended) of this investigation would be the relationship Malik Obama has with the Muslim Brotherhood. This is one loose thread that has never received much attention.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_obama153.htm

(Please watch the attached video in the article, as well.)

[TargeT]

Thanks for finding this 'door', Target.

I would hope the first target (no pun intended) of this investigation would be the relationship Malik Obama has with the Muslim Brotherhood. This is one loose thread that has never received much attention.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_obama153.htm

If my suspicions about "Anonymous" are correct, that topic will never be touched (or at least, not publicized at all if it is). I suspect we will see "terrorists" called out (if that happens at all) that are plausible to the public (or maybe even not so plausible) but in reality not that at all. Perhaps this is the start of a cyber false-flag where anonymous will be shown to "call out" the wrong people and "ruin lives" so that "cyber legislation" will be pushed to "stop the threat".

Seems like it's the beginning of a Problem Reaction Solution cycle that goes hand-in-hand with the silly "stopping encryption would have stopped the Paris attack" push that is already failing.

As Predicted: Encryption Haters Are Already Blaming Snowden (?!?) For The Paris Attacks (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151115/23360632822/as-predicted-encryption-haters-are-already-blaming-snowden-paris-attacks.shtml)

Metadata Surveillance Didn’t Stop the Paris Attacks
And yet intelligence officials and politicians are now saying it could have. They’re wrong. (http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/11/the_paris_attacks_weren_t_stopped_by_metadata_surveillance_that_hasn_t_stopped.html)

At least the N.Y.T. isn't COMPLETELY stupid:
NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Attacks (http://www.insidesources.com/new-york-times-article-blaming-encryption-paris-attacks/)

Encryption Is Being Scapegoated To Mask The Failures Of Mass Surveillance (http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/17/the-blame-game/)

When I see this much traffic on a topic, especially when related to such a questionable "attack" I start paying close attention.


While we are distracted, the Parade goes on!


Congress Working in the Dark on Cybersecurity Bill


With a sweeping cybersecurity “information sharing” bill expected to become law early next year, passed in haste and against the strong opposition of the privacy and civil liberties community, the ACLU filed a lawsuit today to uncover what that legislation will actually authorize.

Last month, the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill that allows companies to share user data with government agencies who, the government claims, are better positioned to defend the companies against hackers. In practice, CISA would be a new surveillance authority, permitting private companies to monitor and share with the government sensitive information about their users and customers, “notwithstanding any other provision of law.” As a result, we and others, including major tech companies, have opposed CISA on the basis of the bill’s plain text. But the privacy intrusions that CISA authorizes on its face may pale in comparison to what the bill allows when read in conjunction with a still-secret opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

For the last four years, Senator Ron Wyden has been asking the OLC to withdraw and declassify an opinion it authored in 2003 interpreting “common commercial service agreements.” Senator Wyden has warned that the OLC’s opinion on “common commercial service agreements” is "inconsistent with the public’s understanding of the law" and is directly relevant to the congressional debate on CISA and cybersecurity legislation more broadly. And Senator Wyden has suggested that the executive branch has relied on the OLC opinion in the past and cautioned that it could rely on this secret interpretation in the future. Yet members of Congress remain unaware of how the OLC’s opinion would influence the meaning and implementation of the proposed cybersecurity legislation.

In March, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking release of the opinion on “common commercial service agreements,” but the OLC denied the request and the Justice Department did not respond to our appeal. Today, the ACLU filed a lawsuit seeking to compel the OLC to release the opinion.

The OLC provides the executive branch with legal advice, helping the executive branch understand the limits on its authority imposed by statute, the constitution, and international law. These opinions are effectively binding on the executive branch. Not all of OLC’s advice is secret; some of it is mundane. But around the time the opinion on “common commercial service agreements” was written, the OLC was busy drafting secret interpretations of the law that authorized warrantless wiretapping, concluded that detainees at Guantanamo Bay lacked a constitutional right to habeas corpus, and sanctioned torture. This timing, coupled with Senator Wyden’s repeated warnings, suggests we have good reason to be concerned about this particular OLC opinion.

The last time Senator Wyden warned that the executive branch had adopted a troubling and secret interpretation of law, he turned out to be referring to one of the most sweeping surveillance programs ever directed at Americans—the NSA’s bulk collection of call records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Once Congress and the American public learned of that unlawful and secret interpretation, Congress put an end to it.

The American people are entitled to understand the real meaning of our laws. Indeed, the Freedom of Information Act was enacted to discourage agencies from developing bodies of secret law. Fortunately, CISA isn’t law yet. Congress still has to attempt to reconcile the somewhat different versions of the bill passed by the House and Senate, and it may not do so until January. Before our lawmakers expand the government’s surveillance authority under the guise of cybersecurity legislation, shouldn’t we—and the legislators themselves—know what the real consequences will be?
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/congress-working-dark-cybersecurity-bill


Jeb Bush calls for restoration of NSA surveillance program
http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_full/public/bushjeb_091815getty.jpg?itok=U9deTeSU
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Monday called for the U.S. to restore the National Security Agency's (NSA) collection of information on Americans’ phone calls in the wake of last week's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris."I think we need to restore the metadata program, which was part of the Patriot Act," the former Florida governor said during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"It expires in the next few months. I think that was a useful tool to keep us safe and also to protect civil liberties," Bush added.

Bush has long been a supporter of the program, which started under his brother's administration and continued under President Obama.

The program, which privacy advocates have blasted, allows the NSA to collect in bulk records about millions of Americans' phone calls — including the numbers involved in the call, the time it occurred and how long it lasted. The content of people's conversations is not recorded.

Obama signed a bill in June to end the controversial program, shifting to a more targeted system set to become active Nov. 29, according to an NSA memo shared with The Hill.

Jeb Bush and other Republicans have called for a stronger response to Islamic militants after they claimed credit for last Friday's attacks, which left 129 dead and hundreds more injured in Paris.

"There is a lot riding on this. So I think we can have the proper balance of protecting privacy rights and making sure that we use all of the tools of intelligence to keep us safe," Bush said Monday.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/260258-bush-calls-for-restoration-of-nsa-metadata-program-after-paris-attacks

[moekatz]

Wimpy Jeb. Can't you come up with some phrase or "reason" that hasn't been exposed as a fairy tale that the dumbed down amerikan public will swallow? My advice to Jeb...fly to Utah, hold a press conference in front of the NSA facility and then have a cozy lunch with the authorities that run the syndicate in Salt Lake City. I've really had enough of this guy and his relatives.

[TargeT]

America's spooks abandon crypto-backdoors, plan shock-doctrine revival
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They have decided that there's no political will to ban crypto today, but have vowed to bring it back after some unspecific future terrorist atrocity.

This reminds me of the Patriot Act -- hundreds of pages of legislation, sitting in a drawer, waiting to be produced when the right historical moment emerged. It's always amazed me that 9/11 truthers think the worst indictment you could make of the US political establishment is that they killed 3,000+ people -- what about the totally non-speculative, indisputable fact that there were US political actors who contemplated some nonspecific future disaster, and whose version of preparing for that disaster was to lay in an orwellian legal maneuver, as opposed to, say, a bunch of bandages, plasma and refugee shelters?


Although “the legislative environment is very hostile today,” the intelligence community’s top lawyer, Robert S. Litt, said to colleagues in an August e-mail, which was obtained by The Post, “it could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be shown to have hindered law enforcement.”

There is value, he said, in “keeping our options open for such a situation.”
http://boingboing.net/2015/09/17/americas-spooks-abandon-cryp.html



Is this even a surprise anymore?

here's a great rant about the "public":

The problem here is that you need someone to hold your hand and the official story does that for you. You get scared when someone else isn't leading you because you spend absolutely no time doing any kind of background research. Your knowledge of the world comes from the History channel, mainstream news articles, and TV in general.. Or something to that effect.

I've went through a great deal of stress trying to marry contradicting beliefs that I have had, wondering if I'm crazy, getting mad at how easily dismissive and outrageously ignorant and foolishly dumb people can be.. I've passed all that because I've come to realize I'm not like you.. I challenge authority, my interest is in the truth and not just what's easy for me to swallow. I'm good at spotting bull****, I critically think, I know a lot of background contemporary history and absolutely do not settle on any of my beliefs - I question everything.

It took a long time to be happy with how I think and I'd never expect the average Joe to reach this point ever in his life. He's too busy trying desperately to fit in, getting his feet wet but never wading out into deep water, diving in, and living there as deep as he can go.. He's too scared of the consequences, how it will make him feel, how he will look to others. So he justifies his ignorance by only focusing on the ridiculous, the crazy, the stories that make him wince.. Instead of trying to find the things that cannot be explained away, the inconsistencies in the official story, or obvious signs of lying. It takes a certain type of person to see through all that and you just don't have what it takes.

[chancy]

Hello Everyone:
Why now is "Anonymous" getting into the business of outing terrorists? Why Paris is the catalyst for "Anonymous"?
There have been many many many things that they could have figured out if they are so good.
Examples:
Missing planes
( where's the plane now?)
Missing People
( where did these people go from planes in 911. From missing Malaysian flight and more )
Who shot civilian aircraft down? There's been a few of these.
911 that changed everyones world to suit the ptb with mountains of new laws. Who really carried out 911. Why not expose evidence of this travesty.
The lost trillions from the Federal reserve
The lost trillion and change from the Federal government that rumsfield talked about the day before 911.
There are so many things that Anonymous could have worked on but they chose Paris. WHY????
chancy

[Matthew]

From what little outdated knowledge I have of the anonymous movement/cult I presume this is a public relations exercises.

I think it's down to us to protest the things we care about but anonymous could be an inspiration. They are a counter culture movement that knows how to be effective despite their flaws. For example I was suprised when I learned anonymous were behind the Million Mask March.

[etheric underground]

Get MR ROBOT onto it.......hehe

[Omni]

Interesting thread, thanks TargeT. I used to think anonymous was 100% controlled opposition, and maybe they are. But a lot of the truther accounts on twitter with anonymous leanings are activists who spread awareness of dark things. So even if anonymous is controlled or created opposition, I think it does have some decent people on the ground... @trutherbotred (an anon twitter) on Twitter has a lot of great tweets for awareness...

[Citizen No2]

I do hope everyone is aware that, in the very near future, we will not be able to link and communicate in the manner, and talk about the subjects, that we currently do.

Right now, we are merely spectators to the take-down of internet 1.0.


What happens when we are labelled 'extremists', because we question?



Regards.

[TargeT]

Interesting thread, thanks TargeT. I used to think anonymous was 100% controlled opposition, and maybe they are. But a lot of the truther accounts on twitter with anonymous leanings are activists who spread awareness of dark things. So even if anonymous is controlled or created opposition, I think it does have some decent people on the ground... @trutherbotred (an anon twitter) on Twitter has a lot of great tweets for awareness...

To me, you just described the beauty of anonymous; it's very structure draws more of it's brand to itself, it's a self perpetuating thought construct. The easiest ever to co-op, if it was ever needed (I think it was started as a very complex operation built on years of social media data analysis, it's beautiful really).

I would never say it's 100% anything, Rather it's a useful tool & public opinion being what it is (Soooo easily manipulated, just repeate some phrase a lot and BAM! you got trooth!), easily turned into a weapon; to date nothing anonymous has done has had any "real" effect (still in the same situation, aren't we? Perhaps a bit worse now?) & it should have by now.

Call me skeptical, 'cuz I am on Anonymous...




I do hope everyone is aware that, in the very near future, we will not be able to link and communicate in the manner, and talk about the subjects, that we currently do.

Right now, we are merely spectators to the take-down of internet 1.0.


What happens when we are labelled 'extremists', because we question?



Regards.

It could be done right now; technically. I hope the fight never goes out on that front, at the very least.
Though even now many are viewing a filtered web. It's a slight filtration, but it's there; especially if one uses Google or Yahoo or Bing. Those sneaky algorithms are like lithium in the water, just a slight change, minor censorship is ok right?

[ghostrider]

Anonymous can find terrorist but, the CIA , FBI ,NSA, Home- land security cannot find these guys ...

[zen deik]

Hippies... Go figure

[Positive Vibe Merchant]

I love how ISIS has their own twitter feeds and facebook pages... Calling Dr Evil.

[Citizen No2]

The French have enacted emergency 'terror' laws until the end of February. I spied this little tit-bit:


Police will be able, for example, to place under house arrest individuals flagged for “their behaviours or their acquaintances, their comments or projects.”

I have a feeling that this 3 month trial of quasi-military law has the possibility to be rolled-out elsewhere. The police no longer need a warrant to come crashing through your door........ and under these new powers can do so for the comments you make using any of the current media.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/49cbc4f8-8ead-11e5-8be4-3506bf20cc2b.html


Regards

[Tangri]

Anonymous can find terrorist but, the CIA , FBI ,NSA, Home- land security cannot find these guys ...

Because they are not against at same weight :facepalm: Maybe it will turnout the real boss. (?)

[DouglasDanger]

Dear Anonymous

Please turn on the tracking options in their phones tablets and computers and give the information to those trustworthy who can target them from the air so we do not have to put good humans in the line of fire.

I have absolutely no faith in Anonymous they have had multiple chances to make ISIS easier to track and eliminate but only now have they started to do anything, to little to late?

[TargeT]

Don't forget, Paris happened because of encryption!

It almost seems like one of the Paris attack uses will be to further lock down free communication (or at least try to); they certainly aren't giving up on this ridiculousness.

Homeland Security chair: ‘Biggest threat today’ is terrorists using encryption

Just because there is no “credible evidence” of an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) plot against the U.S. doesn’t mean the extremist group isn’t planning one, said House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) on Sunday.

“I think the biggest threat today is the idea that terrorists can communicate in dark space,” he said on CBS's "Face the Nation," referencing the myriad encrypted communications platforms that are widely available. “We can’t see what they’re saying.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/261048-house-intel-chair-biggest-threat-today-is-terrorists-using-encryption


This isn't surprising at all:

"US military research center in complication with the tech media are cooking news": Kuwaiti security firm writes a guide to encryption for Gaza residents. Wired writes it up as 'ISIS OPSEC manual'
http://arabcrunch.com/2015/11/how-the-western-media-cooks-news-isis-opsec-manual-isnt-from-isis-it-was-reproduced-from-dec-2014-guide-for-gaza-activists-journalist.html


Sen. Feinstein Lashes Out at Silicon Valley for Encryption Technology in Wake of Paris Attacks
In response to last week's Paris attacks, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Dianne Feinstein condemned tech companies for not doing more to aid law enforcement in fighting terrorism. Feinstein and other intelligence officials believe that last week's attackers used encryption technology, which makes communications difficult, if not impossible, to track. But experts disagree on encryption's ability to thwart tracking efforts and President Obama has yet to require companies to provide law enforcement with a backdoor around encoding technology
https://soundcloud.com/kqedforum/sen-feinstein-lashes-out-at-1




ANONYMOUS:
10 days and the best they could do was take down a few Twitter accounts and a message board?

Yeah, well I'm not surprised, I thought for sure that they'd at least do a bit more though, at least to keep up their credibility.

Anonymous takes down the main messaging forum used by ISIS
https://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/2015/11/anonymous_story.jpg
Not too long ago, hacktivist group Anonymous pledged to take action against ISIS, who claimed responsibility for the recent Paris attacks, by attacking their online realm, and taking down social media accounts and websites that promote and laud the said issue. And as promised, the iconic organization has just taken down ISIS' main forum, which is widely used for the terrorists' communications.

Rachel Bryson, a researcher at the Quilliam foundation who specializes in Islamic State messaging confirms that this takedown will largely affect the operations to the terrorists' communication systems, however, it will not affect the spread of Jihadist propaganda in the long run. She added that even if Anonymous becomes successful in paralyzing all of ISIS' systems, the terrorist group will still find a way to rebuild them.

As part of the attacks against ISIS, Anonymous has also taken down over 5,000 Twitter accounts that are associated with the militant group a few days ago. The result of these attacks annoyed people who are sympathizing with the terrorist group, which led to some of them promising to avenge ISIS.

According to some analysts, these attacks launched by Anonymous could be doing more bad than good, as ISIS will be forced to use other platforms, which will then make it difficult for authorities to track down the terrorists. ISIS has reportedly moved the majority of its operations towards the dark web, which is only accessible with special computer programs like Tor Browser. “We keep seeing them migrating across different platforms,” according to Bryson. “I don’t think by shutting down a current means of communication will mean the Islamic State fails. It’s not key to defeating them.”

Moreover, the group has also been using Telegram, which offers end-to-end encrypted messaging. Telegram, however, has taken the time to suspend 78 public channels that were potentially used towards promoting terrorism.
http://www.neowin.net/news/anonymous-takes-down-the-main-messaging-forum-used-by-isis

[TargeT]

Disregard... "Journalism" is pretty pathetic these days...

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