Sounds a bit like an idea I saw mooted in one forum a while back - to develop a "voluntary Trojan" that provided full disclosure of what it did, and asked you to install it if you wanted to participate in DDoS attacks against the RIAA and the like. Sort of a "join the resistance botnet" kind of idea. While aiding jihadists isn't what the group had in mind for such a project, rather something that could be used by Westerners to fight back against increasingly despotic regimes, I'm not surprised that the jihadists have picked up on the same line of thinking.

May I choose a subset of sites I would like to attack?

I mean "Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite websites" is a bit vague, besides, I have no intention to attack Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate or Shiite websites ... and only a subset of Western websites ... located on the other side of the pond ...

@Steve, hey, why not, lets give the RIAA some good old-school American spanking! Have the link?

I feel like the Russians 100 Years ago!

Uns bleibt, was gut war, was klar war,

dass man bei Dir immer durchsah

und Liebe, Hass doch nie Furcht sah,

Commandante Che ...

"But it seems to me, they have not reached the technical level of some criminal groups, for now."

- And by criminal groups we specifically mean the Russians and their 'Storm' botnet.

"In order to show your Jihad support also against Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite OSes please delete your current OS and forward this message to 10 Jihad friends"

Would it not be a good idea for the intelligence community to release the exact same program but with slight modifications, say like reporting on who actually installed it and uses it and also what else is on their computers. The intelligence people could just sit back and watch the info roll in.

The site doesn't take PayPal by any chance? Sounds like a great way to make money out of dumb wannabe terrorists. $19.99 for an electronic Jihad program that sprays random packets out of a PC and sucks up 100% of the CPU. Most of the amateur suicide bombers out there would never notice that the only service being denied was their own... 419 for gullible Al Qaidans? It's probably run by the CIA

There are far too many bad web sites out there, it's high time someone did something about them.

What!!

You mean non-white-non-christians are allowed internet access!!!! ????

WTF is the world coming to ....

If the Trojan were to attack "shite" websites then i suspect it would gain a lot of sympathy. And have to work hard as there are many such sites.

Thesaurus : shite = no good, crap, very bad etc

"For one thing, the system has no fast-flux network or other decentralized command-and-control features, so it would be relatively easy for someone to take it down."

Or possibly easy to take it over and control an established network where the idealists believe they are attacking their enemies but end up attacking PartyPoker (again).

Yeah, if I were that way inclined I'd wait a bit and even maybe encourage its use amongst those eager to topple the West before using it for my own evil ends.

One mans botnet is another mans cyber jihad!

where disinformation may be more valuable than information and truth resides only the mind of the believer

(eek! am I sounding like AMfM?)

Yes, But At Least You Don't Type in Camel Case!

"please delete your current OS and forward this message to 10 Jihad friends"

I'd think forwarding before deleting would work better.

P.S. how come amanfrommars doesn't use his dedicated thingycon?

Yes, yes you are. Thanks for revealing your true identity.

..which non-western jihad-approved software they used to write their programms with? now thats irony on a base level.

..or maybe steve jobs is behind this to ensure mac dominance for good this time?

if a PC joined to the cyber jihad "dies" during the attack, what it will receive when it reaches the landfill?

... 72 virgin ... hard disks?

black raincoat in the bakc and the big umbrella, please...

Yes, that was intentional to make my joke even more "Hilarious" ;-)

The networked computers that the lightning bolt is trying to disrupt appear to be late-model Macs, or at least, Mac-inspired hardware design.

Clearly, Homeland Security needs to put Cupertino on its list of critical infrastructure, to be defended at all costs!

"I don't see how voluntary networks will ever attract the stupendous numbers of compromised machines running, for example, Storm and its variants."

Make the anti-RIAA jihadware part of a new encrypted bittorrent clent. You'll have literally millions of users in a matter of days.

Posted anonymously to ward off the "easy target" mentality of the RIAA. They're all TURDS anyway.