General News Anonymous Declares War on ISIS

Honestly, I have a hard time taking this seriously right now

 

Keep in mind that Anonymous can do a lot more than simply hack into Twitter accounts... for all we know, they can get some seriously classified information from them.

 

We should be accepting all the help that we can get. isis is the enemy of humanity and as such should get the living shit kicked out of them from every direction at once, in as many different ways as possible.

 

Taking down Twitter and other social media accounts is actually a really important part of combating ISIL recruitment. A ridiculous number of recruited ISIL members, especially from outside Iraq and Syria, are recruited via social media.

Though taking down the accounts isn't enough; Anonymous needs to cooperate with authorities and hand over information of account owners to national governments to deal with any important information/prosecute.

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Governments have massive blindspots from time to time and often don't have authorisation for a lot of more intrusive things Anonymous might do, but I think you are right. Unless they fully cooperate with intelligence agencies (or maybe did something more productive like a actually work for them or for companies like Twitter), they're mostly trimming the edges. They could even be disruptive to intelligence agencies if they try to do too much, which is generally not a great thing.

 

They could
Freeze bank accounts
Hack and lock up all devices used by the terrorists.
Lead the terrorists into traps with Google replaced with a hacked version.

Just some ideas.

And they should turn themselves in and tell our government that they could help fight using technology as their weapons.

 

Pretty much this ^. Anything will help. At least they are trying to do something while so many people are just lost and have no idea when or where these Isis people are going to strike next

 

This. Anonymous has accomplished some really big things when people didn't think they could, we should be thankful for their help and appreciate any aid they can give.

 

Let's not underestimate Anonymous.
They have wreaked a lot of havoc, brought down child pornography websites, targeted Israel, carried out Ddos attacks on many organizations.
IS is a shame to humanity and must be wiped off. And any help, ANY help must be appreciated.

 

They're a vigilante type of group, so I can't always support what they do, but in this case I applaud their efforts. They're actually very powerful and can disrupt a lot of ISIS plans. Go get 'em Anonymous!

 

Annonymous do w/e they want to whom they want based on their own agenda or how they woke up that morning, they are cyber-terrorists.
ISIS are 'physical' terrorists.
so ... terrorists vs terrorists, no matter who would 'win' this fight to me

I do agree they can do damage to ISIS though, but lets remember america and europe are not newbies when it comes to cyber wars (i think USA even did the most advanced virus, Stuxnet).

 

Well, I feel like they could potentially do a lot. Surely ISIS uses modern technology for communication. I've been quite busy lately so I have not been following the news but I watched a bit today and (not shockingly at all), the people attacking Paris used cell phones to coordinate when to begin. If anonymous can intercept their communication or wreck their technology, that would likely hurt them quite a bit and could prevent attacks or release information about ISIS.

However, it would be interesting if anonymous could actually do more than the world governments already do. I'm assuming/hoping top talent would be recruited by the government to fight ISIS in the technology sphere. As someone mentioned, maybe anonymous would be more effective since they don't have to follow any procedures or regard ethics. But, I'm not so sure the US does this anyways......

I guess we will see.

 

I support Anonymous completely.
They've done a lot of good and despite being kicked down numerous times they still lurk in the background, always observing.

 

Apart from that one time they sent flashing gifs to epileptic people, yeah. Same. I hope they can do some good here, as they have done in so many other places.

 

What I would ultimately like to see is Anonymous creating a searchable database of everyone who has shown support for ISIS or other terrorist groups, or has in some way involved themselves with the network. Make that information public, similar to the sex offender registry, and allow people to search for that information based on geography. Let all their personal information be made public.

The downside to this is that inevitably some innocent people are going to be added to the list. The upside to this is that it makes it harder for ISIS to recruit and work as openly online without having interested people exposed. Once people are exposed it becomes harder for them to carry out terrorist activities because their cover will be blown. Local journalists, local law enforcement, and others will inevitably investigate.

Maybe some type of verification system could be added to the database, where people can be marked as verified vs unverified. Local media and law enforcement will inevitably investigate, and if someone is caught by local law enforcement or exposed in the media, then they can be marked as verified.

Basically, the goal would be to harass them, and make their online operations more difficult if not impossible.

 

I wouldn't say Anonymous are terrorists. True, they're unpredictable vigilantes, but so is Batman mostly Anonymous are fighting for human rights and free speech- they're activists, but not terrorists.

Edit:

I don't think they ever proven that was them?

 

ter·ror·ism
ˈterəˌrizəm/
noun
noun: terrorism

the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.


by definition they are terrorists, even if cyber (some moves i agree with them and some i dont, thing is they write their own agenda who says next thing wouldnt be against something YOU believe in?)

but hey, im the kind of guy that dont trust Google as well so let alone anon