Hacker fights Islamic State by flooding its Twitter accounts with porn
Daesh doesn't like porn. We just started using it to poke fun at them and diminish their presence online.'
A young hacker who goes by the alias ‘Wauchula Ghost’ is haunting the Islamic State online by compromising their Twitter accounts and spamming them with pornography.
In an interview to Washington Post, the hacker revealed that he has been hacking the online accounts of ISIS members and sympathisers for the last two months and has increased his anti-ISIS activity after the Orlando gunman who killed 49 people pledged allegiance to the terror group.
Please take a moment & pray for the Families & Victims of the #Orlando Attack. #OpDaesh #Anonymous #GhostOfNoNation pic.twitter.com/zZLLDlKwvE
— WauchulaGhost (@WauchulaGhost) June 12, 2016
"Daesh doesn't like porn. They don't like women in general. We just started using it to poke fun at them and diminish their presence online,” Wauchula was quoted saying in the report.
He is part of the group called ‘Anonymous’, an international network of activist hackers had declared war against ISIS following Paris attacks last year and had claimed to have taken down as many as 5,500 ISIS linked accounts from Twitter in November 2015.
One of the accounts hacked by Wauchula Ghost. (Photo: Twitter)
Wauchula alone, in just the past two months has hacked over 160 accounts and has changed the users profile pictures to a message that says “I (heart) porn”. He also tweeted pictures of naked women from the accounts, a far cry from the kind of messages those affiliated to the ISIS tweet.
The hacker says he wants to mock and belittle ISIS recruiters who have a very powerful online presence and chase them away from social networking sites.
While many would laud any move to shame those working for the Islamic State, some experts feel that posting pornographic content on Twitter is offensive and would hurt the religious sentiments of those who have nothing do with the Islamic State including Muslims.
The hacker had made a list called ‘jacked accounts’ on Twitter of the ISIS related accounts and the social networking site soon deleted all of them.
Twitter just suspended ALL of the accounts that have been jacked!! #GhostOfNoNation pic.twitter.com/f0ccaV96Fe
— WauchulaGhost (@WauchulaGhost) June 12, 2016
Despite the criticism the hacker is facing for his method, Wauchula says he will continue to compromise twitter accounts promoting ISIS propaganda his way.
"I think we're there to serve a purpose, at least I know I am. My goal waking up in the morning and see messages from Daesh, telling me they're going to kill me or cut my head off. The madder they get, the happier I get," Wauchula said.
