Shock! Hackers for medieval caliphate are terrible coders An analysis of the hacking groups allying themselves to Daesh/ISIS has shown that about 18 months ago the religious fanatics stopped trying to develop their own secure communications and hacking tools and instead turned to the criminal underground to find software that actually works. Kyle Wilhoit, a senior security researcher …
The Sons of the Caliphate Army are another online group who caused a brief stir when they claimed to have plans to kill Mark Zuckerberg.
Hmm.. If they were to target Satan's goNads and the rest of the vile scum behind W10 instead (or as well as), they could win a major publicity coup and, if successful, may even see a major boost to their membership levels! They'll certainly get some sympathy from the millions who suffer at the hands of MS.
"I'm glad we're telling them about the flaws in their cryptography. It reminds me of that press conference we had in 1943 when we told the Germans we'd broken Enigma."
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Congratulations, @David_Gillies, your post prompted me to click on your name to see how much you were capable of irony, sarcasm, or other archness. For the first time under the sign of the vulture. The breaking of Enigma was a secret so secret that, at least in urban legend, many Coventry souls were sacrificed to preserve it, and Britain's hard-won lead in electronic computers was immolated even after the War. How we didn't quite win the war, department.
Examination showed you are capable of all manner of intelligent comment.
So, either it's true, and those six decades of shtumness were the most hubristic ever sacrifices to the god of Twittery (using that work in its archaic sense, equi-impotent to fuckupery) Bureaucracy, and the acts that caused it the most enduring monument of any Twittery Bureaucracy.
Or it's ironic, like the phrase "It's spelled Joomla, but it's pronounced Yomla, remember who won the War."
In either case, I'd send you an Ale except I don't know which button to press.
After discovering that, presumably to avoid concern over promoting terrorism, your article was illustrated with the Mandarin's logo from the Iron Man comic - or a movie based on it - I was inspired to search online for something it reminded me of: the dial depicting the divisional chiefs of Hydra.
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