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after the group anonymous have announced that IS are going to be targeted by them. how much could they damage IS's efforts via the net?

In reply to mark s:
Given that IS makes full use of technology to communicate and organise, possibly they could. IS quite probably use digital methods of money transfer and funding. Weapons purchasing etc. Which could conceivably be disrupted.

In reply to mark s:

They'll probably f*ck some long term security investigation up and make things better for them.

In reply to mark s:

They certainly can't get girlfriends. Or move out from their parents houses.

In reply to mark s:

Not the 72 virgins IS were expecting.

In reply to Kid Spatula:

Thousands of Ion cannons pointing at one target can certainly bring down a web facing server though, it's just whether or not someone takes charge and finds actual IS targets. There's loads of known blogs and forums but they aren't central to anything, most are just used for news distribution and video/picture carriers.

It's not like anons haven't done some impressive real hacks in the past, though obviously that's just people attributing their individual or group attacks to the anonymous name. That's why as a collective anons are taken relatively seriously by people who actually understand what they are talking about, because when the collective does find something they agree on and lots of groups come together under that one collective things can and do get done.

Of course most of the time it's just spamming horse cocks and swastikas but stuff gets done every now and again when there's a good amount of h8 against a specific target. But that brings you back to targetting again, it's hard enough against english targets, trying to take down unknown IS web presences of which all significant ones are in Arabic makes things significantly harder.

In reply to Removed User:

I would be surprised if they found any sites which werent already being compromised by the security services.
Probably main thing they would add is trolling the hell out of the recruiters on social media.

In reply to mark s:

I imagine that they could target their IT, their PR, their finances, their oil and arms deals. They could also threaten to wreck the IT of countries which buy the oil etc from them, or sell them weapons and so forth. If they have the IT skills, they could easily grind IS and their supporting nations to a halt.

But so could GCHQ and NSA too, if they chose to.

In reply to KevinD:

Most of the known sites anyone can sign up to, just standard forums. I think the main issue is Arabic to english translation services aren't great to begin with and when the text is mostly dogma and religious text it's very hard to read anything clearly. Most of the posts are just reposts of twitter content from fighters anyway who anyone can follow if they are interested in that kind of thing. I find it hard to believe there's a forum out there that new IS recruits are told to sign up to when they get to syria/iraq, heh.

In reply to MightyStew:


Favourite post ever

In reply to Removed User:


yup so it is those which anonymous can wind up by spamming to hell and back.

In reply to mark s:

Looks like they may have made a start:

http://english.republika.mk/anonymous-operation-isis-activists-begin-leakin...

In reply to mark s:

Facebook and twitter could easily geo block those countries. The ISP's could drop the BGP peers and all of their internet traffic. The reason why they are allowed to continue is it provides intel on ISIS operations, and it's a handy source of real time targeting information.

Groups like Syrian Electronic Army, SEA, are clued up. They hacked the US army, very publicly. It wouldn't be surprising if they followed the anons, and took their own counter measures. If the Paris guys were using in game chat, to avoid monitoring, that shows a reasonable level of awareness.

Any attack on the Syrian internet infrastructure will probably hurt the poor sods caught up in the middle of it, who just want to know how to get out of the country, or to contact relatives etc. It will affect intel gathering. The only thing that will be reduced is the number of pictures of people posing with guns or severed heads. Their fan base will still be rooting for them and information or propaganda will leak out in other ways.