Into every war a little dumbass must fall ....A lot has been said about the Islamic State’s use of social media for propaganda and recruitment, with the militants urging fellow jihadists to join its fight and boasting, in some detail, its exploits as it tries to seize large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
However, it now appears that the group has perhaps been too forthcoming with its online presence, having liberally disseminated photographs showing their supposedly opulent lifestyle while threatening violence, despite social media sites knowing valuable information about the users, and their messages holding important data on their whereabouts.
Pictures of severed heads and tweets by the Western women who’ve left their homes behind have all provided rich intelligence for America’s National Security Agency (NSA) or Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the Financial Times has said.
According to the paper, an Arabic-language guidebook has been sent to Islamic State (Isis) fighters telling them to remove the metadata from anything they post online, including PDFs and other documents.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-orders-its-fighters-to-stop-giving-away-their-locations-on-twitter-9807014.htmlPity. It was handy while it lasted.
