Ghost Security Group Ethical Issues

When a group of ISIS members attacked Paris, then it sparked an uproar of support around the world against terrorism especially in the hacking community. The most well-known hacker group “Anonymous” and the “Ghost Security Group” decided to take action into their own hands. Some people are not supporting the hacker groups especially the government officials because they feel these groups are going overboard with their tactics. Government officials are saying that these hackers are hacking peoples accounts who are following ISIS, but the hackers fails to understand that not all of these people are supporters of ISIS. Some of these people are researchers and monitoring the ISIS group. A few people are saying that these groups are not doing a

There are multiple different people involved in this issue the U.S government, ISIS, hackers and the public. The hacking groups of “Anonymous” and “Ghost Security Group” feel that they can hack peoples accounts by searching for a couple of key words such as “ISIS”. The group may have been removing these sites and accounts, but fail to understand of whose accounts they are hacking into. People creates accounts in order to study these terrorist groups and trying to learn their recruitment tactics. While there is some good from their actions by trying to shut down these terrorist accounts and preventing more people to be recruited by these groups. The hackers does not know its limits because they decide to attack the state of Michigan website to prove a message across about the Flint town situation. The government website is not harming people, but informing others. The hackers did not have the right to remove the site because they are sort of attacking the American government. The people benefit a lot from the hackers actions because they are begin protected in a way. The hackers are trying to decode of future plans by hacking into accounts of these ISIS members. The hackers are preventing future attacks around the world and protecting the public. The hackers are also trying to weaken the members of ISIS by taking their sites down so they don’t brainwash other people from joining in the terrorist group. The hackers are brining awareness about the problems in our country as well. The town of Flint had a major water crisis and the water became undrinkable. The state of Michigan decided not to take quick action so the hackers decide to harass the officials by sending a message by hacking the government site. The public sometimes doesn’t really have a voice so when the hackers decide to take the action then it grab the official’s