*Well, if anybody deserves that situation, it's these characters.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/08/syrian-electronic-army-denies-new-data-leaks/
*I'll say this for the SEA: despite their raging media hunger and occasional fits of sarcasm, they're sure not in it for the lulz.
http://mashable.com/2013/08/30/syrian-electronic-army-interview/
Q&A With Syrian Electronic Army
How many people are in your group?
We have tens of thousands of members that have different roles according to their abilities with more people joining everyday or volunteering. We have a special operations division that you are probably asking about and we have more than ten specialists. Every member of the SEA counts no matter what their abilities are, everyone contributes to fight the media war against our country, that is why we are an army and not just a hacking group.
Are you all based in Syria?
Yes, we are all based in Syria.
This answer slightly differs to the one given by an alleged SEA hacker nicknamed "The Shadow," who told ABC News that "most" of the SEA members are located in Syria.
Do you have any contacts or support from Chinese hackers?
I asked this because I was curious to know if they had contacts with the more skilled Chinese hackers, who the U.S. government often mentions as one of the biggest threats to American national security.
None of us speak Chinese so I don't see how we would communicate with them. Also, the Chinese hackers tend to attack American targets to steal information and then sell it to companies that undermine US manufacturers. We have been attacking the media, do you know any Chinese group that does that, even at the height of frictions during the Chinese olympics [sic]? Clearly, all these allegations that other nations are helping us is an attempt to undermine people's impression of the Syrian people's capabilities, it is an indirect form of racism.
Were you members of any other hacking group before forming the SEA?
None of us were, the war on Syria brought us all together.
On Wednesday, Motherboard, and security reporter Brian Krebs published two separate stories claiming to identify two members of the SEA.
Motherboard named Hatem Deeb, identifying him as "Th3 Pr0," while Krebs exposed Mohammed Osman, and initially mistakenly claimed he was the same person as Mohamad AlKarem. Mashable's Fran Berkman argued that Osman and AlKarem are most likely different people.
Two stories from yesterday claim to have identified some of your members, can you comment on these two stories? Is Mohammed Osman one of your leaders? What about Hatem Deeb?
The story has been the source of amusement and laughter for all of us. Neither Hatem Deeb nor Mohammed Osman are hackers, but are both friends of ours that they are trying to intimidate in order to blackmail us. What they're doing is actually illegal and irresponsible, they even posted a photograph of a random guy that none of us could identify and called him the leader of the SEA. Knowing what Obama's Al Qaeda terrorists are capable of, do these news sites really want blood no their hand? Because if so, we will make them pay the price for it....
