Is This the 19-Year-Old Leader of the Syrian Electronic Army?

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http://www.vice.com/read/is-this-the-19-year-old-leader-of-the-syrian-electronic-army

By Brian Merchant
VICE
August 29, 2013

The Syrian Electronic Army topped the news cycle again this week, 
following takedowns of The New York Times, Twitter, and Huffington Post 
UK. They're just the most recent efforts in a long string of high-profile 
hacks, which targeted the likes of the Associated Press, the Onion, and 
NPR.

The SEA has said it is waging cyberwar to denounce media coverage of the 
conflict in Syria they see as being overwhelmingly anti-Assad. But who's 
actually running the operation? New evidence indicates that it's a 
19-year-old Syrian named Hatem Deeb.

While the SEA has conducted a handful of interviews with the media, 
including with our colleagues at VICE, they have done so anonymously. 
Their identities have remained secret in all media correspondences, veiled 
behind user names like TheShadow and ThePro. ThePro, or Th3Pr0, has 
claimed the mantle of lead hacker, and his identity has so far been under 
wraps.

The tech press is fond of noting that the SEA has used relatively 
primitive techniques to execute high-profile hacks. Some experienced 
hackers and security analysts have called their attacks downright amateur, 
as some of the group's Twitter takeovers are the result of old phishing 
attacks. And they've also inadvertently left a digital paper trail that 
may reveal the identities of their highest profile members.

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