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ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The ISIS terror group appears to have 5 to 6 members offering 24-hour support on how to encrypt communications, hide personal details and use apps like Twitter while avoiding surveillance. It's kind of like a 'help desk,' though not an actual call center hiding in the hills. It is a group of IT specialists answering questions from locations spread out all over the world, according to Aaron Brantly at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. It has been find out that the advice is largely being relayed on an ISIS channel on Telegram, a messaging app that has become popular among members of the group because it allows for special secret chats. The jihadi help desk has lengthy training manuals, and Brantly has reviewed over 300 pages of training documents and roughly 25 YouTube videos that provide tips to evade intelligence agencies and law enforcement.
I have to break out my ISIS helpdesk post again:
Welcome to the Daesh hotline. Please listen carefully to the following message as our options have changed.
Press 1 for information on how to encrypt messages sent to members of your terrorist cell
Press 2 if you're a suicidal bomber and are having trouble detonating your device
Press 3 if you're an oppressed female who would like to sign up for our next Perl Programming Bootmap
Press 4 for tips on how to write terror and/or hate messages in 140 characters or less
Press 5 to voice your displeasure with systemd
Or Press 0 to speak with a member of the Bush family for further assistance
These guys are running a solid business.
The overwhelming majority of their revenue is acquired through theft.
I'd hardly call that a "solid business."
Wall Street would beg to differ!
OTOH, their contributions to the pension fund tend to run a little light.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
ISIS member: "hello, my bomb vest won't explode, what do I do?"
ISIS Hotline: "have you tried to turn it off and on again?"
ISIS member: "no, wait----" BOOOOM
ISIS Hotline: "God dammit, everytime..."
Have you ever tried to compile it from source? :-D
No good deed goes unpunished.