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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: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday December 13 2015, @09:48PM
What the fuck are you babbling about? Who said anything about blacks rioting? What the fuck does blacks burning down their own neighborhoods have to do with choosing an unknown commodity over a known bad one? Seriously mods try thinking before you mod,mmkay? Hillary is ALREADY KNOWN, we know her M.O., we have seen plenty of what she stands for both herself and her husband and its rampant shilling for the megarich, I mean for fucks sake one of her pledges is damned near word for word a repeat of the 200 billion dollar swindle [pbs.org] that her husband gave the ISPs back in the 90s!
So if the choice is one that MIGHT suck versus one with a long history of blowing the 1%? I'm gonna roll the dice and take a chance, better than the Bush/Clinton "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" we've been dealing with for 2 decades!
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @12:34AM
Sure, Mrs. Clinton is a shill for the ultra-rich, fine, but Mr. Trump is himself ultra-rich. I wouldn't expect him to do things against the interest of his class.
As for him being an enigmatic, mysterious, unknown person, it's difficult not to know at least a few things about him, thanks to the heavy media coverage he's been receiving. Based on what he's said during his campaign, I've concluded that he's against Mexicans, women, Muslims, and the Internet [soylentnews.org]. Although I'm none of those, I'm not eager to play the "first they came..." game.