An interesting story has recently gotten popular in the media: a few days ago hackers took down an ISIS site set up on Tor with an .onion address. What did they replace it with? A funny little message:
Too Much ISIS.
Enhance your calm. Too many people are into this ISIS-stuff. Please aze upon this lovely ad so we can upgrade our infrastructure to give you ISIS content you all so desperately crave.
It's not known exactly who is responsible for the hack. But The Independent covered it, and Yahoo! as well. Even the New York Magazine got in on it:
In The New York Times Headlines Today https://t.co/GTwXq1RL4C .... Story here https://t.co/pOnLWenOy3 #bitcoin pic.twitter.com/EL23AZff5Q
— Adam Guerbuez (@AdamGuerbuez) November 25, 2015
Adam Guerbuez has been a large promoter involved with BitcoinPharmacy.xyz, the site connected to the Anonymous hack against ISIS, and he shared many links related to the hack, before many details were publicly known.
For once it's nice to see a terrorism-related bitcoin story that isn't just fear and stupidity, but a fun little display of how bitcoin can spit in the face of religious extremism. This puts bitcoin in the right light: we are just geeks trying to change the world for the better and empower the individual.
For once it's nice to see a terrorism-related bitcoin story that isn't just fear and stupidity, but a fun little display of how bitcoin can spit in the face of religious extremism. This puts bitcoin in the right light: we are just geeks trying to change the world for the better and empower the individual.