GhostSec members were both “horrified by ISIS’s atrocities” and concerned by the inability of governments to counter ISIS online: GhostSec’s main focus was ISIS, but it also went after other organizations such as Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, and Hamas. GhostSec was one such group that began targeting the Islamic State (ISIS) shortly after the call to cyber arms. The Anonymous declaration spawned multiple efforts to eradicate the online presence of terrorists.
“ track down all jihadist activities online and bring down Twitter and Facebook accounts of jihadists as well as close down any of their YouTube channels,” they said ( International Business Times 2015). Some Anons said it was their democratic duty to engage in the international political battle against groups. Be afraid of us, Islamic State and Al Qaeda-you will get our vengeance ( International Business Times 2015).Īnonymous members declared war on politically violent Islamic extremists. We will track you everywhere on the planet, nowhere will you be safe. Online, Anonymous created a campaign, “Operation Charlie Hebdo” or #OpCharlieHebdo, to take down terrorist organizations related to the attack: “Je suis Charlie” became a unifying slogan, expressing global civil society’s solidarity against terrorist organizations. There were numerous public demonstrations and denouncements against the attacks across the globe. Eventually police killed all three of the attackers (BBC 2015).
The associate had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL). However, there was a connection: an associate of the brothers conducting the attacks was responsible for killing the police officer and taking hostages at a kosher supermarket. During that time a policewomen was shot and killed in what seemed to be an unrelated incident in another part of the city. The brothers, who were members of al-Qaeda, fled the offices, fleeing across Paris for the next several days. On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, two masked brothers carrying assault rifles burst into the offices of the Parisian satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people. (McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto, 2004:4). Not always great things, or even good things, but new things. Hackers create the possibility of new things entering the world.
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