Yes Gentoo Linux for ISIS: US authorities arrest an 20 year old student from Chicago for material support in ISIS.
In accordance with indictment, the teenager allegedly created a Python script that automates ISIS 'multimedia storage from official channels on social networks so that members of the terrorist organization can share them on their own accounts, helping propagate propaganda.
In addition, Thomas Osadzinski, a 20 student from Chicago, also promised to develop a light distribution of Gentoo Linux for the terrorist organization.
"I'll start a new and valuable project," the student wrote in an online chat with an FBI agent in March on 2019.
“I will be developing a custom version of gentoo linux designed for ansar [ISIS supporters] that can run on any computer. It will be very light, fast and safe ”.
Osadzinski allegedly told his agent FBI that he will develop his own distribution of Gentoo Linux and publish them updates in an online chat room.
“It will be very secure, in sha allah and will only be released on Social. When there are fewer applications installed, the operating system is harder to crack, ”Osadzinski said.
By May, Osadzinski had shared one screenshot of the Gentoo Linux distribution he developed and promised the FBI that it would be "available very soon to ansar [ISIS supporters]".
During this discussion, Osadzinski reiterated that the operating system would be very difficult to breach by "Crusader intelligence services".
The FBI stated that Osadzinski had the necessary knowledge to release such a distribution, as he had studied information technology through DePaul.
According to Osadzinski's LinkedIn, worked for two months as a software tester for BlackBerry Cylance, a cyber security startup.
If found guilty, Osadzinski faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
