Yes Gentoo Linux on ISIS: U.S. authorities arrest a 20-year-old Chicago student for materially supporting 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 it will develop its own distribution of Gentoo Linux and publish the updates in an online chat room.
“It will be very secure, in sha allah and will only be released on Social. When there are less applications installed the operating system is more difficult to hack," Osadzinski said.
By May, Osadzinski shared a screenshot of the Gentoo Linux distribution he developed and promised to the FBI that it would be "available soon for ansar [ISIS supporters]".
During this discussion, Osadzinski reiterated that the operating system would be very difficult to breach by "Crusader intelligence services".
The FBI said Osadzinski had the necessary knowledge to release such a distribution, having studied computer science through DePaul.
According to Osadzinski's LinkedIn, worked for two μήνες σαν software tester για την BlackBerry Cylance, μια startup on cyber security.
If found guilty, Osadzinski faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
