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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Anarchist hackers go to cyber war with ISIS | TheHill

Anarchist hackers go to cyber war with ISIS | TheHill: "By Elise Viebeck - 02/12/15 06:00 AM EST


Anarchist hackers go to cyber war with ISIS | TheHill: "By Elise Viebeck  http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/02/anarchist-hackers-go-to-cyber-war-with.html

The global hacker collective known as Anonymous is storming the international political scene with a brash hacking campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).  

 The shadowy anarchist group, which is known for waging online attacks on everyone from the U.S. government to the Church of Scientology, is trying to dismantle the vast social media operation that helps ISIS recruit new followers.  

 By exposing and disabling hundreds of Twitter accounts, email addresses and websites purportedly affiliated with ISIS, hackers with Anonymous are all but inviting the notoriously Web-savvy terrorist group to an online war.  

“In an interesting way, they are set up as perfect nemeses,” said Gabriella Coleman, anthropologist and author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. “There are a lot of similarities in terms of how they use social media. It doesn’t surprise me that they would battle each other online.”  

 Anonymous first became a force online in 2003, when like-minded users of the website 4chan began staging pranks on social media networks...

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http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/232583-anarchist-hackers-go-to-cyber-war-with-isis

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