Short Bytes: Only very few members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous have been publicly identified. One such person is Gregg Housh, who recently sat down for an interview with The Washington Post and talked about what Anonymous is and how it operates.
If you know the history of Anonymous, you must be aware of the fact that only a few members of this collective have been publicly identified.
Gregg Housh is one of the only publicly known and most prominent members of Anonymous. However, these days he is semi-retired from hacking. Talking to The Washington Post, he told more about what Anonymous is and how it operates.
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Housh said that everyone loves to call it “hacking”, but Anonymous also does tons of “research, identifying and monitoring everything out there that ISIS might use to communicate and recruit, and trying to get those channels shut down, be it Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, telegram channels”.
According to Housh, the activities of Anonymous has resulted in some decent effect and ISIS is finding it hard to talk in public.
Replying to a question – If you report ISIS accounts, and social media companies shut them down, won’t they just open others? – Housh said that it’s very hard to get followers on Twitter and influencing people once again is difficult.
Read his entire interview on The Washington Post.
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