Borg contends, however, that Anonymous and the hacker community in general do more good than harm. Given the brutality of ISIS’s attacks, and its successful Internet recruitment efforts, the hacker collective’s latest rally against the terrorist organization is an acceptable risk. “Right now, the harm to innocent parties that Anonymous might cause by going after the servers ISIS is using would probably be worth it,” he says. In addition to the ISIS-related Twitter accounts taken down, Anonymous used #OpIceISIS, #OpParis and other Twitter threads to report on their progress and reveal names, locations and pictures of those supporting ISIS.
“To me, it’s not surprising, it’s a little overdue,” Borg adds. Anonymous launched a similar campaign against ISIS following its attack on Charlie Hebdo, claiming to disrupt tens of thousands of Twitter accounts connected to the terrorist organization