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Any examples of their tech savvy?
by brador 12y ago
Any examples of their tech savvy?
- eastbayjake 12y agohttp://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 agoI don't think I would call spamming Twitter as being tech savvy.
- eastbayjake 12y agoYou 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 agoSure, developing a web app that spams Twitter...
- BrandonMarc 12y agoThis 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 agoHmm, 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.