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Unfortunately once IS gets wind of this they'll be more careful and revise their strategies for releasing media. Those guys are disturbingly tech savvy.

by iaw 12y ago

mmayberry 12y ago
I thought the same but with so much media coming out from both IS and the public there is no way they can censor every image/video.
eastbayjake 12y ago
Get ready for ISIS to submit a post-mortem blog post to Hacker News about this
- lostlogin 12y ago
  ... Poor choice of words given the subject of many of their videos!
brador 12y ago
Any examples of their tech savvy?
- eastbayjake 12y ago
  http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isis-iraq-twitter-social-media-strategy/372856/ http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isi...
  - talmand 12y ago
    I don't think I would call spamming Twitter as being tech savvy.
    - eastbayjake 12y ago
      You call it "spamming Twitter", others might call it "developing a web app": In April 2014, the group developed a free internet application called The Dawn of Glad Tidings, which automatically posts tweets - approved by Isis media managers - to the accounts of the application's subscribed users. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27912569 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27912569
      - talmand 12y ago
        Sure, developing a web app that spams Twitter...
- BrandonMarc 12y ago
  This one's rather chilling. ISIS is employing social media — ‘crowdsourcing’ — to identify Saudi agents. They’ve even got an Android app just for the purpose. ”U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring ISIL’s social media communications identified the campaign as a crowd-sourced effort to gather names and other personal information about Saudi intelligence officials for the assassination campaign.” http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/08/04/terror-and-the-sword-of-justice/ http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/08/04/terror-and-th...
  - im3w1l 12y ago
    Hmm, smartphones are quite easy to pwn right. So, I'd wager US has the names of lot of civilian ISIS supporters now. I wonder what that will be used for.
latj 12y ago
These are probably staged photos taken for use as propaganda. The probably train far from this location. This is just where they stopped on the side of the road to take pictures.
nikcub 12y ago
They are also intel savvy. They understood the propaganda value / intelligence tradeoff prior to publishing the first photo. AQI/ISIS have adapted and evolved from almost a decade of fighting the US military and intel orgs. They also had AQAP counterintel guys from Yemen advise them on counter-drone and other strategy.
- iaw 12y ago
  I think latj's idea is right and that these photos were staged as propoganda

Unfortunately once IS gets wind of this they'll be more careful and revise their strategies for releasing media. Those guys are disturbingly tech savvy.

by iaw 12y ago

Unfortunately once IS gets wind of this they'll be more careful and revise their strategies for releasing media. Those guys are disturbingly tech savvy.

mmayberry 12y ago

I thought the same but with so much media coming out from both IS and the public there is no way they can censor every image/video.

eastbayjake 12y ago

Get ready for ISIS to submit a post-mortem blog post to Hacker News about this

lostlogin 12y ago
... Poor choice of words given the subject of many of their videos!

brador 12y ago

Any examples of their tech savvy?

eastbayjake 12y ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isis-iraq-twitter-social-media-strategy/372856/ http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isi...
- talmand 12y ago
  I don't think I would call spamming Twitter as being tech savvy.
  - eastbayjake 12y ago
    You call it "spamming Twitter", others might call it "developing a web app": In April 2014, the group developed a free internet application called The Dawn of Glad Tidings, which automatically posts tweets - approved by Isis media managers - to the accounts of the application's subscribed users. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27912569 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27912569
    - talmand 12y ago
      Sure, developing a web app that spams Twitter...
BrandonMarc 12y ago
This one's rather chilling. ISIS is employing social media — ‘crowdsourcing’ — to identify Saudi agents. They’ve even got an Android app just for the purpose. ”U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring ISIL’s social media communications identified the campaign as a crowd-sourced effort to gather names and other personal information about Saudi intelligence officials for the assassination campaign.” http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/08/04/terror-and-the-sword-of-justice/ http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/08/04/terror-and-th...
- im3w1l 12y ago
  Hmm, smartphones are quite easy to pwn right. So, I'd wager US has the names of lot of civilian ISIS supporters now. I wonder what that will be used for.

latj 12y ago

These are probably staged photos taken for use as propaganda. The probably train far from this location. This is just where they stopped on the side of the road to take pictures.

nikcub 12y ago

They are also intel savvy. They understood the propaganda value / intelligence tradeoff prior to publishing the first photo. AQI/ISIS have adapted and evolved from almost a decade of fighting the US military and intel orgs. They also had AQAP counterintel guys from Yemen advise them on counter-drone and other strategy.

iaw 12y ago
I think latj's idea is right and that these photos were staged as propoganda