(Dagbladet): For about a week ago released hacker collective Anonymous a video where they made it clear that the terror group IS should get retaliate for attacks against Paris.
“The biggest operation ever launched” came the refrain, and the terrorists learned that “Anonymous representatives from around the world are going to chase you. Know that we are going to find you, and we do not let go. “
Several experts in the field, however, was skeptical, and now it can look like this skepticism was unfounded. According to technology website The Verge’s entire operation about to be counterproductive.
Inaccurate
Most of #OpISIS has been a struggle Anonymous members can fight from sofrakroken, desk or on the train way to work. It was to flood Twitter accounts and websites with information, and thereby provoke a crash.
But especially the Twitter front has hackers not been as precise as they should.
The sites The Daily Dot and Ars Technica have both gone through lists Anonymous has posted. Their research shows that many of these account the only connection to the IS is that they have written in Arabic.
Another user who has done some research found that there were both Kurds, Iranians, palesinere and Chechens on the list. As he writes: “I am not saying that everyone here has the best of intentions, but they are defintiv not IS.”
Warns
Anonymous has obviously even noticed that their operation has slipped out something On Monday it began to circulate a message to the environment.
– If you contribute to #OpISIS. Please take a moment and think of who are the targets of this action. Remember #OpISIS comprised of people from a range of countries at different religions that are as diverse as the languages we speak.
They also mentions some of the same problems as The Verge have marked itself. That accountability has not been quite what it should be.
– Just because a website or a post is written in Arabic or come from a religious Muslim, does not mean that they are a target for action. Some of the most dedicated # OpISIS-fighters are Muslims.
– Will not mean anything
Lecturer at the University of Oslo, Gisle Hannemyr, told Dagbladet last week that Anonymous will not have any real influence in the fight against terror group.
– I do not think that this will mean anything in the fight against IS. Anonymous is primarily people who have a fetish for Guy Fawkes masks. They are also very happy to get in the papers, which they are very good at, he told Dagbladet.
According to IT researcher is not Anonymous any real organization, but rather a series individuals with varying skills in hacking and related activity. This in turn has meant that the attacks from Anonymous has often been uncoordinated and ineffective, says Hannemyr.
He refers to their attack against the Ku Klux Klan, where several people were named as members without being there . The same wrote The Guardian in an article in which Anonymous itself denies having released misinformation.
– Naming the wrong people might suggest that their sources were not particularly good. Regarding IS so I think that it is a goal that is particularly well suited for hacking, in that they often employ low-tech channels, and alternative channels that are difficult to frame with the funds that Anonymous has used previously, said Hannemyr.
War Declarations
This is not the first time Anonymous has gone to what they call ‘war’ against terrorists. Also after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in January they were quick with a declaration of war.
They also took up the fight against pedophilia rings of “Operation Death Eaters” – an epithet they obtained from JK Rowling’s Harry Potter universe.
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– The investigation so far has exposed a large circle of the British elite from media, politics, police and intelligence, known as the “untouchables” of the police, it was said at the time.
They wrote that they want to stop all mistreatment and smash trafficking groups.
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