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posted by CoolHand on Sunday December 13 2015, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly

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."


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday December 14 2015, @10:03AM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Monday December 14 2015, @10:03AM (#276041)

    LOL you really don't know how national elections work, do ya?

    You can vote for third parties while realizing that your chances of success are low. As I said [soylentnews.org], voting for the 'lesser' of two evils is no solution at all. I'm sure The One Party will gladly give up its power by changing how our election system works eventually, all thanks to people who vote for evil scumbags.

    Until the entire election system is changed you can give it up

    You're part of the problem. Giving up because something is difficult is cowardly.

    But even if what you said were true, voting for evil would still not be valid. People who don't vote at all are better than people who vote for evil, but if they're not going to vote, they may as well start voting third party no matter what their actual views are on the futility of it.

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