Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day (softpedia.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @07:19AM from the plucking-the-low-hanging-fruit dept.

BarbaraHudson writes: Softpedia is reporting that Anonymous, along with social media users, have identified several thousand Twitter accounts allegedly linked to ISIS members. "Besides scanning for ISIS Twitter accounts themselves, the hacking group has also opened access to the [takedown operation] site to those interested. Anyone who comes across ISIS social media accounts can easily search the database and report any new terrorists and supporters. The website is called #opIceISIS [slow right now, but it does load] and will index ISIS members based on their real name, location, picture, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts." Anonymous crowdsourcing their operations... welcome to the brave new world, ISIS. An article at The Independent reminds everyone that this information has not been independently confirmed, and that Anonymous is certainly capable of misidentifying people. It's also worth exploring the question of why Twitter hasn't already disabled these accounts, and why intelligence agencies haven't done anything about them, if they're so easy to find.

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Great Work Kids! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-17 07:30 · Score: 5, Funny

There is literally nothing in the world harder than creating a Twitter account. I know, I tried. Couldn't read the damn CAPTCHA without my spectacles.
Anonymous has completely ruined the infrastructure of terror. It will take centuries to rebuild.
Great work kids. I hope you all get medals for you bravery.
Well, the prophecy came true.... by shocking · 2015-11-17 10:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Daesh is about to get screwed by 72 virgins...