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How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk)

Posted by samzenpus on from the thanks-but-no-thanks dept.

retroworks writes: According to a recent tweet from the #OpParis account, Anonymous are delivering on their threat to hack Isis, and are now flooding all pro-Isis hastags with the grandfather of all 2007 memes — Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video. Whenever a targeted Isis account tries to spread a message, the topic will instead be flooded with countless videos of Rick Astley circa 1987. Not all are praising Anonymous methods, however. While Metro UK reports that the attacks have been successful, finding and shutting down 5,500 Twitter accounts, the article also indicates that professional security agencies have seen sources they monitor shut down. Rick Astley drowns out intelligence as well as recruitment.

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  1. Rickrolling will never be the same by zuki · · Score: 3, Funny

    I found this article more than a bit Astonishing.

  2. Re:What is this, click bait? by pahles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or is it just more proof that /.'s editors could be replaced with a poorly coded .php script?

    No, it is proof that /.'s editors HAVE BEEN replaced with a poorly coded .php script!

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  3. Re:Did intel actually complain? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Why would Intel complain? You think they'll sell less processors now?

  4. Pity poor Rick Aston by jrumney · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rick Aston is this minute being waterboarded by CIA agents trying to find out the hidden messages in Rick Astley's hit meme song. All because of a fly that landed on the typewriter ribbon at the wrong time.

  5. I just imagined... by SharpFang · · Score: 5, Funny

    A large room in the NSA building, filled with serious men in dark suits sitting in front of hundreds of computers.

    Every few minutes "Never gonna give you up" is heard from a random place in the room.

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  6. Re:Worse than clickbait ! by crow_t_robot · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is counted as a counter-terrorism success story??

    1. Richard Reid—December 2001. A British citizen and self-professed follower of Osama bin Laden who trained in Afghanistan, Richard Reid hid explosives inside his shoes before boarding a flight from Paris to Miami on which he attempted to light the fuse with a match. Reid was caught in the act and apprehended aboard the plane by passengers and flight attendants. FBI officials took Reid into custody after the plane made an emergency landing at Boston’s Logan International Airport.[3]

    I'm fucking laughing so hard.