I trust your opinion. How do you think this is going to end?
Quoting: Mountain Woman Not enough data to venture a guess right now. Everything I've seen so far
suggests most of the self-declared Islamic hacker groups are relatively unskilled. Alone, they aren't able to do much appreciable damage. Twitter hacks are a dime a dozen, and the CENTCOM escapade was only noteworthy because of the target they chose.
What worried me was the link between the Caliphate and groups such as Lizard Squad (responsible for gaming platform attacks). At least one member of LS publicly aligned himself with the Caliphate. I'm a little curious as to what the link is. Is there a coincidental overlap in membership, or are members of groups supporting ISIS joining more advanced, but largely anarchistic, groups to have more fire power against targets? Are these groups really even backing ISIS, or are they a bunch of kids with too much time on their hands and needed a flag to fly to publicly cover their bullshit?
If it continues on how it has been, it's going to end up an extremely inconvenient non-event. They'll deface sites across the board, security holes will be plugged up, and nothing much will come of it. People will lose data security, but that happens on a frighteningly regular basis anyway. Data leaks aren't a new thing, and hundreds of thousands (sometimes millions) of users are compromised monthly on various services.