Everything You Need To Know...

...about CENTCOM's Twitter account being hacked by ISIS/Daesh.

4 comments:

Cass said...

That was great - thanks :p

But seriously, didn't you know that CENTCOM posts all their sensitive data on Twitter?

*running away*

Grim said...

They actually do (or did) have a pretty robust web engagement program called the DET ("Digital Engagement Teams") that's aimed at responding to claims by Islamic extremists -- in several languages -- with factual material that readers can double-check if they don't believe it. It's run out of their PAO shop.

So it's a legitimate field of encounter, and this is a minor ISIS victory. But it's really no more robust than having torn down a propaganda poster.

Cass said...

Basically, it just makes them look stupid. But it's the digital equivalent of counting coup - not of breaching their firewall and accessing data not intended for public dissemination.

Still makes us look bad though.

Cass said...

"Them" in my first sentence meaning CENTCOM, not ISIS. Sheesh, I really am tired!