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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, @10:10PM
Because you might as well not vote? The US system is locked at 2 parties, no third party candidate has even gotten close to winning the white house, at least not in the last 100 years. The third party candidates are kept from the debates, are ignored by the media, you might as well write in "the ghostbusters" for your vote because that would have about as much of a chance of becoming the POTUS as any third party. Besides we have already seen what happens when you get a third party that can pull in a few votes, see Nader giving the 2000 election to Bush. Tell me, do you HONESTLY feel we were better off with 8 years of Bush over Gore? As much as I wasn't a fan of Gore looking at his past record I seriously doubt we'd have had the debt explosion and multiple wars on his watch, and we can thank Nader voters for that outcome.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday December 14 2015, @01:44AM
You're just digging yourself into a deeper hole here in my estimation.
If you really hate the main 2 parties, and you say no third party will ever get elected, why not at least vote third party to register your anger instead of refusing to vote at all?
Besides we have already seen what happens when you get a third party that can pull in a few votes, see Nader giving the 2000 election to Bush.
If you weren't going to vote in the first place, this doesn't mean anything.
Tell me, do you HONESTLY feel we were better off with 8 years of Bush over Gore?
This is completely beside the point.
Come on, Hairyfeet, put some of that rage to constructive use.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday December 14 2015, @02:02AM
No it isn't besides the point, its EXACTLY the fucking point! We got 8 years of debt, over 1 million dead Iraqis, 55,000 Americans, because of guys like YOU that completely pissed away your vote, thus draining crucial swing state votes which allowed Bush to win the white house.
That is VERY much on point because if the third party CAN NOT WIN then by your third party vote ALL YOU ARE DOING is insuring the right wing a victory, since its always the left that is independent. Until the laws are changed to where you actually have at least a 1 in 3 chance of actually doing something? Then you might as well put an elephant statue in your yard as you ARE giving them your support.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday December 14 2015, @02:14AM
So when *I* vote third party it's wrong, but when you refuse to vote it's fine? Somehow I'm the one responsible for one of the big two getting in office?
...which you said is inevitable anyway.
You're not making any sense.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"