Anonymous Takes Down 5,500 ISIS Accounts, 24 Hours After ISIS Called Them “Idiots”

[dixiegrrrrl]

Paris, France – The Anonymous hacking collective has reportedly taken down over 5,500 Twitter accounts purported to belong to Islamic State members following their declaration of “total war” on the terrorist group after the Paris attacks.

The announcement comes less than 24 hours after hacktivist group warned of a coordinated and targeted attack against the Islamic State in the wake of the deadly wave of terror attacks across Paris.

Anonymous spokesman Alex Poucher told RT:

“Our capability to take down ISIS is a direct result of our collective’s sophisticated hackers, data miners, and spies that we have all around the world. We have people very, very close to ISIS on the ground, which makes gathering intel about ISIS and related activities very easy for us.”

Poucher went on to say that the groups hacking acumen “might be better than any world government’s tools to combat ISIS online,” adding that although ISIS has its own hacking core, the terrorist group “does not have hackers like we have hackers.”

“They picked a fight with Anonymous when they attacked Paris, and now they should expect us,” he said, adding that the collective “will not sit by and watch these terror attacks unfold around the world.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/anonymous-takes-down-5500-isis-accounts-24-hours-after-isis-called-them-idiots

[merrily]

1. I'm not upset. That's all I'm saying.

[Initech]

2. Twitter is a start. Time to hit ISIS where it really hurts: their wallets!

Go Anonymous!!!

[ananda]

23. Yeah, especially if they're as good as they SAY they are!

Drain those bank accounts, anon!

[Rex]

3. I would say Daesh is the group of idiots. No idiot is too nice a word...they are lost fools.

They fucked up royally by hitting anons home turf. I hope they are left without a pot to piss in.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Yes! I am laughing in their faces!

[Rex]

8. Oh and I read that dont like the world Daesh.

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SUX!

[Jarqui]

4. Some of those 5.500 twitter accounts will have left

some digital trail

[moondust]

6. I'll bet

if Anonymous publicized some ISIS addresses they'd get an army of volunteer electronic warriors to help bombard/attack/disrupt/take down/smother/whatever some ISIS web sites/forums/propaganda outlets.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. If Anonymous were ever to establish their own country,

I would seriously consider immigration.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

15. But then, how would you recognize friends, family and coworkers, etc..

if everyone is wearing those silly Guy Fawkes masks and speaking in the same ominous voice?

[roguevalley]

24. mine will have a pink bow and a Hello Kitty button. :D

I would come along too. I want to die in a free country.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

30. There just HAS to be at least one non-conformist or attention seeker in the crowd.

[951-Riverside]

9. Ah, more feel good bullshit for the low hanging fruit

Anonymous spokesman Alex Poucher told RT:

“Our capability to take down ISIS is a direct result of our collective’s sophisticated hackers, data miners, and spies that we have all around the world. We have people very, very close to ISIS on the ground, which makes gathering intel about ISIS and related activities very easy for us.”

....riiiight.

[Rex]

10. I don't get your comment, what is wrong with that statement?

Feel good bs? What?

[951-Riverside]

11. There is no proof, no evidence ...nothing

All we have here is just a statement from a guy who claims to be the spokesperson for an group/faceless organization that has no leadership yet people take it as truth.

BTW, taking down a twitter account (which I doubt they're doing, unless they have direct access to twitter's administration tools) means nothing when these terrorists can easily just create a new one. Signing up for a new twitter account takes less than a min.

[Rex]

12. What kind of proof do you want?

Obviously there is some kind of leadership and some kind of organization. How do you know they were obvious Daesh twitter accounts? Maybe anon dug into twitters server and found them and killed them.

You think they made this all up? Did you know anon works out of Paris?

[951-Riverside]

17. "You think they made this all up?" Yes, I do.

This news story is equivalent to me saying that I'm the King of Black Lives Matter then releasing a statement proclaiming that I got 50 police officers in various states fired last night for violating people's rights.

Sure, it sounds good but in reality its bullshit.

We have people very, very close to ISIS on the ground

People actually believe this? really? ...really?

So according to the "spokesman" for Anonymous, they have agents "on the ground" close to ISIS terrorists for the sole purpose of finding these terrorist's twitter accounts so they can take the accounts down ...and people actually believe that.

[Rex]

21. That sounds a little silly...just to take down twitter accounts? Really?

I see you already have your mind made up.

[roguevalley]

25. I'm sure they do but some people are only arm chair warriors and

wouldn't risk their butts for anything so the distrust. There are people who run toward the fires in life. I admire them greatly.

[Rex]

26. I been there.

That I can understand.

[Fairgo]

40. I enjoy the power of empty-headed hubris

to compel lazy-boy pundits to smugly dismiss a topic for having little proven basis in fact based on the pundits own cheez puff opinions...that are demonstrably based on no facts at all.

[PosterChild]

31. No there isn't a leadership and there is no organization . ,,

.?... anonymous does not operate or exist in that sense . And anon doesn't have any spokespersons. Anyone can claim or say anything in the name of anon.

These reports are akin to overhearing some teenage boys on the corner bragging about their sexual exploits.

[Rex]

32. So their youtube page is just some kids playing around?

You new to the Intertubes?

https://www.youtube.com/user/AnonymousWorldvoce

[PosterChild]

34. Yep. eom

[Rex]

35. LOL nt

nt

[Heeeeers Johnny]

13. I can just imagine ISIS's outrage and reaction...

when they wake up and find out they won't be able to post cat pictures anymore.

[Faux pas]

14. K N R

[TBF]

16. Go get'em Anonymous

[spanone]

18. K&R...

[MowCowWhoHow III]

19. Twitter: Anonymous's lists of alleged ISIS accounts are 'wildly inaccurate'

Twitter: Anonymous's lists of alleged ISIS accounts are 'wildly inaccurate'

Anonymous’s online battle with the Islamic State is starting to look like much ado about nothing.

The hacktivist group, which functions primarily online and has thousands of supporters around the world, declared “war” on Monday in a customary video. They promised “the biggest operation ever” against the organization that claimed responsibility for the deaths of 130 in France.

A major front in this online war is Twitter, where Islamic State supporters are allegedly spreading like wildfire. The social network has banned thousands of these pro-ISIS trespassers, the New York Times reports, citing a terms-of-service violation which prohibits supporting terrorism.

To the applause of its own supporters, Anonymous claimed on Friday to have whacked more than 20,000 ISIS accounts—amounting to nearly half of the known active accounts, according to estimates from earlier this year. The process generally works by curating a massive list of Twitter accounts in a text document, designating them as “ISIS-affiliated,” and publishing them online. The group then reports the accounts, some using a widely circulated “Twatter Reporter” bot.

If anyone’s engaged in an online war, however, it’s the people at Twitter, who are working—perpetually—to scrub extremist views and violent threats off the face of the Internet.

A spokesperson for Twitter, who asked not to be quoted by name, told the Daily Dot that the lists generated by Anonymous are not being used by the company, saying research has found them to be “wildly inaccurate.”

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/twitter-isnt-reading-anonymous-list-isis-accounts/?tw=dd

[lpbk2713]

20. One thing ISIS has not apparently learned yet ...

Fug with the bull, you get the horn.

[joanbarnes]

22. Defies 'conventional wisdom,' nothing we can do except Bomb them.

[Ferd Berfel]

27. We're paying $1,000,000,000,000 /yr for our Military and they are funding

projects that fail and don't want or need. If Anonymous can do this WTF is the Pentagon doing?


For Crap Sake.

We should take half of the military budget and give it to Anonymous.

[eShirl]

29. that's gold

[PosterChild]

33. Sure they took down some twitter accounts.,.

.... did they kill this guy?



Ummm, no.

[jeff47]

45. Yeah...taking down twitter accounts will surely liberate everyone under ISIS's control.

[Lee-Lee]

28. Doesn't really harm them, and may do more harm than good

Hacking Twitter accounts accomplishes nothing. It doesn't take back territory, it doesn't take away money, it doesn't reduce ability to fight.

It takes each of those Twitter users a whopping 2 minutes to make a new account, and since networking on there is by hashtag they will all find each other again.

So real world impact- minimal to none. In 48 hours those folks will have found and be following each other's new account and it will be like it didn't happen.

And, in fact, it may have harmed the fight against them. If intelligence agencies were monitoring some of those accounts they may have shut them out before they got as much information as was possible, making them start over again. Sometimes when you find someone doing something online it's best to sit back, watch and exploit that source of intel instead of just cutting it off.

[JudyM]

36. They "have people very, very close to ISIS on the ground"?! WTH!? Nt

[Heeeeers Johnny]

38. Can you spot the Anon infiltrator in this picture?

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[JudyM]

39. Great response, thanks for the laugh. Nt

[yuiyoshida]

41. good for them!

who's the idiot now, Isis? Bwahahahahaha! baka! Doji, Manuke!

[NuttyFluffers]

42. by briefly taking away their hashtags & reburying those intel chatter leads?

yo no comprendo su strategia.

sounds like feel good pablum instead of useful interference.

[Quantess]

43. I appreciate their efforts.

It's better than doing nothing.

[jeff47]

44. Yeah...not so much. Turns out their list is bad.

http://gizmodo.com/anonymous-is-really-screwing-up-its-stupid-war-on-isis-1744170852

[Triana]

46. "The most powerful instrument of indoctrination for ISIS is the Internet."

. . .

The most powerful instrument of indoctrination for ISIS is the Internet. ISIS glorifies both the sanctity of its moral, historical, and political goals and its acts of vengeance against all whom it brands infidels. And it advertises it all without shame. “If you Googled ‘Raqqa’ in those early days you got their material first and only,” one of the R.B.S.S. members told me. “So that was one reason why a lot of foreign fighters emigrated. And this is why we began.”

In mid-April, 2014, just a month after the first crucifixions in the city, a group of six like-minded young people started to talk to each other on Facebook. The group expanded only a little before ISIS discovered it. Within two or three weeks a local imam declared that anyone who worked with R.B.S.S. would be tracked down and executed. Some civilians were arrested simply because they “liked” a post on social media.

Undaunted, R.B.S.S. activists posted on social-media sites photographs and reports of daily life in Raqqa; the whole idea was to fight ISIS propaganda on the digital battlefield.

THE REST:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/telling-the-truth-about-isis-and-raqqa