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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: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Sunday December 13 2015, @06:45AM
He was talking about choosing Trump over Clinton. Unless you net a few million per year, voting for Clinton is like shooting yourself in the head, which is even dumber than rioting.
Personally, if it was a Trump v. Clinton campaign, I'd pop myself some corn and vote for Jill Stein. Clinton's problem is that the GOP hates her for reasons I don't comprehend, and liberals hate her because she is a warmongering neo-con wall street whore. That leaves the deluded and the non-GOP warmongering neo-con wall street whore voters for her. That might be enough to win, but I'm skeptical.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @02:58PM
He was talking about choosing Trump over Clinton. Unless you net a few million per year, voting for Clinton is like shooting yourself in the head, which is even dumber than rioting.
Really? Voting for clinton is like voting for all the previous presidents. If that's equivalent to shooting yourself in the head then this country was depopulated decades ago.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Sunday December 13 2015, @06:28PM
How about this, let's ask the soldiers who died in Iraq if voting for Clinton or Bush or any of those fuckwads is like shooting yourself in the head.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday December 13 2015, @07:55PM
The US survives largely in spite of its politicians, not because of them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @07:20PM
If it comes down to Clinton vs Trump. I am voting for Trump. Because FUCK it. You gave me two bad choices and I am going to pick the most retarded one and you can deal with him.