ISIS to recruit new members with a 24-hour “help desk”
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The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has set up a 24-hour “help desk” to advise burgeoning jihadists on encrypting their communications in order to evade authorities, NBC News reported.
The tactic has developed rapidly over the last year, according to several U.S. Army counterterrorism analysts. Roughly half a dozen senior operatives are now always on hand at this center to provide digital pointers.
This help desk demonstrates the terorrist group’s increasing savvy in using digital tools to both recruit new members and to plan attacks.
ISIS has taken credit for the deadly terrorist attacks on Paris last week that killed over 120 people. European officials say those behind the attack may have used some type of encrypted communication in the planning process.
“They’ve developed a series of different platforms in which they can train one another on digital security to avoid intelligence and law enforcement agencies for the explicit purpose of recruitment, propaganda and operational planning,” said Aaron F. Brantly, a counterterrorism analyst at the Combating Terrorism Center, an independent research organization at the U.S. Military Academy, in an interview with NBC News.
A professor was talking about how they exploit the youth with a crisis of some sort for their advantage. The fact that they are reaching out in social media and now even by phone, ugh, scary stuff
oh my... How was he/she in real life? And did they brainwash your friend?