Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them

An anonymous reader writes in with this story about the latest weapon used by ISIS: doxing. "Middle East terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) has called on its followers take the fight to 100 members of the United States military residing in the US. A group calling itself the 'Islamic State Hacking Division' has posted names, addresses, and photographs of soldiers, sailors, and airmen online, asking its 'brothers residing in America' to murder them, according to Reuters. Although the posting purports to come from the 'Hacking Division,' US Department of Defense officials say that none of their systems appear to have been breached by the group. Instead, the personal data was almost certainly culled from publicly available sources, a DoD official told the New York Times on the condition of anonymity."

Comments

Needs a honeypot

[russotto]

The military needs to post a few names and addresses themselves. They'll look like regular houses but they'll actually be guard posts. If anyone shows up and starts shooting, they end up dead.

Re:Needs a honeypot

[X0563511]

That sounds like the kind of work the CIA is supposed to do.

Re:Needs a honeypot

[ShanghaiBill]

The military needs to post a few names and addresses themselves.

Maybe they just did, and this is a false flag operation to lure ISIS supporters into the open.

Careful, they might shoot back

[Anonymous Coward]

Targeting those with the ability to shoot back seems like a less than cunning plan.

List culled from public sources, and here it is:

[wonkey_monkey]

the personal data was almost certainly culled from publicly available sources

IS has called for the deaths of:

Sgt Bilko
Captain John Carter
Colonel Jack O'Neil
Colonel Jack O'Neill
Major Dad
General Hospital

Re:List culled from public sources, and here it is

[bkmoore]

You've forgotten Colonel Sanders and General Tso, both responsible for the death of innumerable chickens.

Re:Kill them all.

[Earthquake Retrofit]

I understand your anger. But we're supposed to be better than them. I feel compelled to warn against becoming like your enemy.

Re:Kill them all.

[bkmoore]

....They need to die. Every last one of them..... It's about a power-vacuum that was created in the Middle East....

That's exactly the problem. We make a list of every so-called asshole and kill them all only to find out that the problem hasn't been solved and that we need to make a new list of the new assholes who filled in the power-vacuum we created by killing the last bunch of assholes. Not to get all soft here, but the ISIS, Al Quida, etc. are symptoms of underlying political and social-economic problems that need to be addressed. The middle-east was always politically unstable since we broke up the Ottoman Empire in 1920. But the violence was limited as long as the economy was able to provide employment for the majority of the population. What we have had since the 1990s is the rise of globalism and the erosion of middle-class jobs, especially in the countries that have failed to diversify their economies and encourage innovation. The combination of economic pressure and lack of legitimate political structures has caused a perfect storm in which organisations such as ISIS can thrive.

Re:Your government at work

[DRMShill]

Yeah, well call me when John Boehner starts burning people alive and posting it to Youtube.