<story><title>Twitter Suspends 300k Accounts Tied to Terrorism in 2017</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/twitter-suspends-300-000-accounts-in-2017-for-terrorism-content</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ohsnapman</author><text>Saw a lot of speculation about what ISIS does or does not do without actual links. Here are a few good ones I&amp;#x27;ve seen in the past:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;isis-opsec-encryption-manuals-reveal-terrorist-group-security-protocols&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;isis-opsec-encryption-manuals-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This podcast was pretty good. ISIS were using a Turkish Dropbox like service to move files ... except the service was actually based in France, something a whois &lt;i&gt;on the domain&lt;/i&gt; could have easily detected. Fighters have also geotagged tweets&amp;#x2F;instagram&amp;#x2F;Facebook posts, which led to a drone strike:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gimletmedia.com&amp;#x2F;episode&amp;#x2F;62-decoders&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gimletmedia.com&amp;#x2F;episode&amp;#x2F;62-decoders&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So ... they&amp;#x27;re both more sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec. And less sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter Suspends 300k Accounts Tied to Terrorism in 2017</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/twitter-suspends-300-000-accounts-in-2017-for-terrorism-content</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrissnell</author><text>I understand why Twitter might not want ISIS accounts on their service but from a national security standpoint, it seems better to have the communication happening on a U.S.-based service like Twitter than some darknet or crypto-centric app.</text></comment>