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CBS reports that hot on the heels of its campaign against ISIS, the shadowy hackers' collective known as Anonymous is going after a new target: Donald Trump. The latest Anonymous operation -- #OpTrump -- was announced in a YouTube video featuring a masked activist claiming to speak for the group. In a computer-generated voice, he takes aim at Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States, claiming "This is what ISIS wants." He goes on to say that "the more the United States appears to be targeting Muslims, not just radical Muslims," the more ISIS will be able to recruit sympathizers. The video concludes with Anonymous' now-familiar threat: "You have been warned, Mr. Donald Trump. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. Expect us."
After a video message was posted, the website of Trump Tower in New York City went down for at least an hour. However the campaign didn't appear to have much success. Despite the group's apparent distributed-denial-of-service attack, which aimed to take down a web server by flooding it with fake traffic, the Trump Tower website was up and running by 11 a.m. and the alleged damage might not have been apparent, to visitors to the page, because a cached version of Trump's site was programmed to hold the fort in the event of an attack or maintenance issues. Gabriella Coleman, who studies hackers and online activism as the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University, in Montreal, told CBS News it's no surprise that Anonymous would find Trump a juicy target. "He's the biggest bully and the only other bully that's bigger is possibly trolls and Anonymous," says Coleman. "Anonymous isn't necessarily going to take down his campaign, per se, but they could embarrass him."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 13 2015, @05:06AM
People who have caused with their orders and dealings the destabilization of entire regions of the world and the deaths of populations both foreign and domestic; for the sake of war-profiteering.
Trump isn't the problem, his popularity is merely the symptom of a much bigger problem -- one other Americans played instrumental parts in creating. Those are the ones who Anons should go after, not Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @05:28AM
Your drunken grammar is annoying.
But it's true. Trump is a symptom, not the disease. The disease is the Trump phenomenon - the morons that keep him the GOP frontrunner.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 13 2015, @05:39AM
The disease is that the American political system is so openly corrupted and full of shit that people are supporting somebody they perceive to be the (most) honest and unable to be bought-off.
We could argue all damn day about whether or not Trump is really speaking with honesty, but unlike other politicians, he's insulting the intelligence of only himself. Hillary, as an example, insults your intelligence everytime she addresses you.
The mouths of most other candidates on both sides are more full of shit than those of German prostitutes, and the rest are perceived as wimps because they don't talk the trash that Trump does -- and that's not including the Nazi propaganda-style support that "preferred" candidates get by the mainstream media in debates and other discussions.
Americans don't like Trump because they're stupid -- they like Trump because they're not stupid.
(Score: 2) by Balderdash on Sunday December 13 2015, @10:52AM
What is it that these German prostitutes do with shit in their mouths?
I don't understand.
Do they have a cup or something?
I browse at -1. Free and open discourse requires consideration and review of all attempts at participation.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday December 14 2015, @01:29AM
Trump has the Turkey Farm vote.
Shocked I tells ya, simply shocked!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @12:33PM
the morons that keep him the GOP frontrunner.
"Boo hoo. People aren't choosing the person I like, what morons. Democracy has failed once again."
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday December 13 2015, @06:54AM
You might enjoy this podcast episode from Scott Carrier (This American Life contributor). Anyway, he has a podcast called Home of the Brave. He recently went out and interviewed people who like Trump (Scott's a socialist). The most interesting guy was this Quartermaster at a VFW post (thought Viet Nam was stupid, Iraq was stupid, sick of the Clintons and Bushes of Washington, breaks all kinds of stereotypes):
http://homebrave.com/home-of-the-brave/ [homebrave.com]
Specific episode: https://homebrave.squarespace.com/home-of-the-brave//trump-supporters [squarespace.com]
VFW guy: 14:00
Anyway, I'm not voting for Trump, but that VFW had a lot of smart things to say.