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

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 12, 2016 @05:34AM from the we-are-legion dept.

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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The downside of this by Z00L00K · 2016-06-12 05:36 · Score: 5, Interesting

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.

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1. Re:The downside of this by Hognoxious · 2016-06-12 06:04 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  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.
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