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Anonymous Posts Pornography To Hijacked ISIS Twitter Accounts (softpedia.com) 189

Posted by EditorDavid from the we-are-legion dept.
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Softpedia is reporting that a member of the Anonymous collective "has been hijacking accounts for the most active ISIS supporters, the ones involved in online recruitment, and has been plastering their profiles with naked women and peaceful messages." Anonymous is also using the hijacked accounts to monitor "protected" tweets from ISIS, and they're reporting hundreds of thousands of other ISIS profiles to Twitter. But Anonymous is also defacing 161 of the hijacked accounts, saying they're "Adding our own images and basically showing them 'We are in control'... we are creating confusion and distrust..." There are a few things that the Islamic State fear. One is women and the second is Porn."
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  • And probably twitter will ban it much faster (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 12, 2016 @12:35PM (#52299985)

    And probably twitter will ban it much faster if it is porn than if it were "just" ISIS propaganda.

    Prude america, wake up!

  • The downside of this (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Z00L00K ( 682162 ) on Sunday June 12, 2016 @12:36PM (#52299989) Homepage Journal

    The downside of this is that it's obvious that the accounts have been hacked. It's better to seed confusion whenever an account has been hacked.

    • Re:The downside of this (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Hognoxious ( 631665 ) on Sunday June 12, 2016 @01:04PM (#52300109) Homepage Journal

      As Robert S. McNamara said, "Satire, trolling and propaganda are best when they walk a fine line between being extreme enough to be effective and yet mundane enough to be believable."

      A light sprinkling - ideally gay ones or a bit of pegging - here and there.

      [captcha - repress]

    • Re:The downside of this (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Applehu Akbar ( 2968043 ) on Sunday June 12, 2016 @01:09PM (#52300135)

      My thought also. The script kiddies of Anonymous will get one day of poking fun at ISIS out of this stunt, but a much better strategy would be for the NSA to quietly take over ISIS sites and, using all the global intelligence at its disposal, set up false feeds and chatter, funnel ISIS troops into kill zones, and issue faked calls for terrorist activity in the US and Europe which would lure the next Mateen into a police trap.

      We need to capture people like Mateen alive, so that their minds can be disassembled using the latest techniques to root out the ISIS command trees in Western countries. Every dead terrorist is a good terrorist, but it's also one we can't get information from.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        Also, this just helps ISIS recruit. Look, it's a clash of civilisations, a war against the corrupt, decadent west, the heathens who mock Muslims and draw Mohammed!

        Just report then to Twitter, get them shut down (oh noes, censorships!) and make them harder for people to find. That's the most you can do without making things worse.

        • It does look a lot like a clash of civilisations. Remember that even the 'respectable' Islamic-government countries tend to have awful human rights records, and several of them will execute heretics and apostates.

        • "Also, this just helps ISIS recruit."

          In what way would a secret hexing of jihadist sites 'help ISIS recruit?' And yes, it's a clash of civilizations and we need to understand that the US and Europe are active battlefronts in this war.

      • I doubt IS coordinate their military operations via Twitter. It's a propaganda tool, but too easily-monitored and hard to access under battlefield conditions when troops have no assurance of working internet access.

      • Re:The downside of this (Score:4, Insightful)

        by Kjella ( 173770 ) on Sunday June 12, 2016 @02:02PM (#52300379) Homepage

        We need to capture people like Mateen alive, so that their minds can be disassembled using the latest techniques to root out the ISIS command trees in Western countries. Every dead terrorist is a good terrorist, but it's also one we can't get information from.

        How much of a "command structure" do you need for a lone gunman? If he contacted IS - which is as of yet unclear, or if he just pledged to join their fight - there's no guarantee that he knew anyone or had anyone local who had turned him into a radical. He was angry and wanted to shoot up a gay club, since this is the US he already had the guns so is there any indication IS was more involved than *thumbsup*? This was not Paris or Brussels with many attackers and IEDs, there's no indication this was really organized or trained in any way.

        • Can we finally put this 'lone wolf' crap to rest now? Well-planned international operations in multiple cities require an organizational network. This guy didn;t just look at a website and decide, Death To America.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by robi5 ( 1261542 )

          Even if it was a lone wolf operation, it makes no difference at all. Islam is antagonistic toward Western style freedom (girls education, women's rights, and especially gays and Jewish people) and followers of Islam systematically act on this (we call it islamic extremism, they call it the proper way of interpreting the Koran and living a worthy life), and I couldn't care less about which fucking organizational badge or process they operate under, ISIS, mujahedeen, Al Quaeda, intifada, terrorist, lone wolf,

      • The assumption in all this is that twitter is ISIS' command and control center. It's not. Any direction provided by twitter most likely requires confirmation and attendance in a training facility before deployment.

        To discount an enemies intelligence is a fatal position to take.

        Anonymous did the the best they could do. Embarrass them and make them look incompetent. Stone age treatment for stone age ideas.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Tom ( 822 )

        The script kiddies of Anonymous will get one day of poking fun at ISIS out of this stunt, but a much better strategy would be for the NSA to quietly take over ISIS sites

        So let each of them do their part. One does not exclude the other, you know?

        We need to capture people like Mateen alive, so that their minds can be disassembled using the latest techniques to root out the ISIS command trees in Western countries. Every dead terrorist is a good terrorist, but it's also one we can't get information from.

        You think of Daesh like a club, but it's more like a cult. They don't work the same way, and any people are easily replaced. See the Taliban - how many times has their chief been killed, only to be replaced by someone else?

      • Yeah, I don't know how good it will do in the field, but it would be great to setup a honeypot of some sort. I kinda wonder why they don't do that already, like "to catch a predator" except for f***'ed up would-be terrorists (or perhaps they do and don't mention it much)

      • We need to capture people like Mateen alive, so that their minds can be disassembled using the latest techniques to root out the ISIS command trees in Western countries. Every dead terrorist is a good terrorist, but it's also one we can't get information from.

        Congrats: you're as monstrous as them.

        Also as dumb as a bag of hammers by advocating behavior that justifies their cause, aka running Bin Laden's playbook.

        • I'm talking about drugs and sensory deprivation, not torture. Torture is only good for intimidating people, which is why the jihadists use so much of it. When we want to intimidate people, we use drones.

      • People like Mateen aren't terrorists. Mateen was mentally disturbed, hated gays, and had a god complex. Read some of the interviews about him.

        “First he claimed family connections to Al Qaeda,” which, like the Islamic State, is a Sunni Muslim terrorist group, James Comey, the F.B.I. director, said Monday. “He also said he was a member of Hezbollah,” a Shiite group in conflict with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. (NYtimes)

        So basically he claimed he was a part of every group, even ones

        • "Mateen was mentally disturbed, hated gays, and had a god complex."

          Just like every other terrorist who has fallen under the spell of Wahhabism.

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  • Take *that*, Omar Mateen! Yeah, you sure showed him, didn't you?

  • Yeah yeah, bunch of weeny punks (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Whatever became of their fight against the Mexican cartels? Huh? Bunch of cowards, spraying graffiti and running. Easy to go after the meaningless soft popular shit. Let's see them block the weapons sales and deliveries, then we can call them heroes. Obviously they are not. More likely they are agents of distraction.

    • Bunch of cowards, spraying graffiti and running

      Well, what do you expect from somebody hiding behind anonymity?

  • Don't think so (Score:3)

    by Bloke down the pub ( 861787 ) on Sunday June 12, 2016 @12:51PM (#52300057)

    There are a few things that the Islamic State fear. One is women

    Well they've certainly conquered *that* phobia, because they seem to be able to get close enough to commit rape on an industrial scale.

    • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Rei ( 128717 )

      Exactly what I was thinking... this is a group that sells sex slaves for a profit....

      I agree with others, that they should have deliberately planted false information. I know some groups have posted fake copies of Dabiq for that purpose (Dabiq = their professional-looking monthly magazine, named after the Syrian town (which they control) where they think that Armageddon will soon begin)

    • Easily solved: Switch to gay porn.

  • arrogant twerps (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Some criticized their move since US intelligence agencies said they were using the Twitter accounts to monitor ISIS movements.

    "We have also been told we are interfering with federal investigations by talking these accounts," said WauchulaGhost, being well aware of the issue.

    "Maybe, maybe not. I see it this way, Daesh are going to create new accounts whether we take them or they are suspended. We are simply helping by exposing locations etc."

    "Once Daesh create a new account, now we know where they are. No need for months of monitoring and wasting taxpayer’s money."

    • Anonymous does what they want, without process, open debate, or accountability. Even if you agree with what they're doing today, that could easily change tomorrow. Anonymous has no place in modern society.
  • Why not just put pictures of bacon on the twitter accounts of ISIS! :-D
  • This used to be very popular on the Internet. You create a website or a YouTube channel as a "terrorist group" you then declare that you have hacked the website or YouTube channel. Websites that were not getting visitors used to declare that they have been hacked by blah blah blah group. It is an attempt at creating attention for themselves "attention seekers".
  • From what I've heard, your typical ISIS member is so deeper in porn than the Marina Trench (or whatever it is. Think it's Marina.) So they might enjoy it.

  • How can we tell if the pictures are really offensive if we can't see them? We need to see non-blurred images for purely scientific reasons. Yeah just for scientific reasons. That's it, that's the ticket.

  • Why porn (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I would post pigs, dogs, ham and wine photos.

  • Kind of ironic they're being attacked by 72 virgins.

  • "There are a few things that the Islamic State fear. One is women and the second is Porn."

    Sounds like conservative Utah.....

  • Naked women are okay for the Muslim, "sluts will get what's coming to them".

    Anonymous should be posting pictures of the most delicious bacon dishes.

  • Regardless of what they say, the fact that they take women and use them as sex slaves demonstrates that a naked woman doesn't really offend them. They might not admit that porn turns them on, but it will.

    If you're trying to piss ISIS off, post stuff supporting -other- religions. Pictures of Jesus, the cross, the Star of David, the Wheel of Dharma. Post links to positive stories about other religions. Post scripture from any holy book other than the Qur'an. Hell, post Chick Tracts.

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