Nerds Shut Down ISIS

"...Dina Temple-Raston gives us this riveting report on Operation Glowing Symphony ...which in November 2016 launched a cyber-attack from Fort Meade, outside of Baltimore, against the websites ISIS used to spread propaganda, raise funds, and recruit terrorists:

By the fall of 2016 there was a team, Joint Task Force ARES; there was a plan called Operation Glowing Symphony, and there were briefings — that had gone right up to the president. It was only then that there was finally a go….

They began moving through the ISIS networks they had mapped for months..."

http://dakotafreepress.com/2019/09/27/nerds-shut-down-isis/

 

Thank you for the link. What a fascinating story

 

OP Glowing Symphony – How US military claims to have disrupted ISIS ‘s propaganda
January 22, 2020
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/96695/terrorism/op-glowing-symphony-isis.html

ZDNet: US Cyber Command was not prepared to handle the amount of data it hacked from ISIS

 

I was hoping it was 10 year olds from their families computers in the living room.