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

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

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Prude america, wake up!

Re:And probably twitter will ban it much faster

[Opportunist]

Hey, don't you watch TV? Chopping titties off is acceptable, kissing them isn't!

The downside of this

[Z00L00K]

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

[Hognoxious]

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

[Applehu Akbar]

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:The downside of this

[Kjella]

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.