The recent terrorist attack in Paris have resulted in more than 100 deaths. It shocked the world and an increasing number of people are starting to pay more attention to the center player of the attack, ISIS.

The attack also brought attention from another organization, Anonymous. This organization started with a bunch of hackers and gamers who insist on network transparency. They support Wikileaks, which is a nonprofit Internet organization. Anonymous declares that since ISIS started a war on the Internet, they have closed 149 websites, more than 100 thousand twitter accounts, about 5,900 ISIS videos, and even locations of ISIS terrorists. They claim that this is going to be the biggest Internet assault in history.

In response to Anonymous, ISIS announced that Anonymous is a bunch of “idiots.” They question whether Anonymous can do anything else besides hacking Twitter accounts and websites.

Recently, it has been discovered that the vast majority of Twitter accounts targeted by Anonymous are not related to ISIS at all.

It is possible that the Twitter accounts they targeted belonged to anti-ISIS individuals, journalists, and academics, because as they tried to report that many accounts, it was difficult to make sure that everything they found actually came from ISIS accounts.

Furthermore, one user on Twitter called th3j35t3r has publicly posted about Anonymous and its accusing innocent people.

He also claims that ISIS uses Anonymous just to get more attention. A new Twitter account can be created instantly, so it doesn’t really matter if ISIS loses a Twitter account.

The FBI and Twitter are not taking Anonymous’ reports anymore because they claim that they are inaccurate.

Such a situation is getting really ironic, especially if this is what Anonymous’ total war is like. This will not be the first time they do more harm than good.


<Yinghan Leo Tang Orange Lutheran High School 10th >