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Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online
An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous has begun releasing the personal details of members of the Ku Klux Klan, escalating its cyberwar against the white supremacist group. Last week the hacktivist group promised to reveal the identity of 1,000 members of the KKK after getting possession of the private information through a compromised Twitter account. A press release from Anonymous reads in part: "After closely observing so many of you for so very long, we feel confident that applying transparency to your organizational cells is the right, just, appropriate and only course of action. You are abhorrent. Criminal. You are more than extremists. You are more than a hate group. You operate much more like terrorists and you should be recognized as such. You are terrorists that hide your identities beneath sheets and infiltrate society on every level. The privacy of the Ku Klux Klan no longer exists in cyberspace. You’ve had blood on your hands for nearly 200 years. You continue to inflict civil rights violations, commit violent crimes and solicit others to commit violent criminal acts. You seek to intimidate and/or eliminate those that are different from you and those that you dislike by any means possible. You seek to terrorize anyone and anything that you feel is a threat to your narrow view of the 'American way of life'."
The names of a thousand hateful red necks. Sounds like the best reading list for the winter. The real fun will be to see who gets wrongly targeted. I hope no one has the same name as me or signed me up. Vigilantes for the win!
Looking at the Pastebin data, seems almost all the E-mail addresses in the pre-release come from a Russian site. It would be interesting to have some confirmation before people listed in the data get the dogs of war sicced on them.
One anonymous criminal organization exposing another. For transparency no less!
There are no journalistic controls in place. They can put whoever they want on that list.
Oh wait... we hates the KKK so it's just "publishing" informaiton.
Information we don't even have decent proof as to the nature of the source.
Like Dan Rather's proof that Bush got preferential treatment - Until the documents were proved as forgeries - That's ok, he said, the documents are fake but what they said is true!
So which is it? Do Slashdot's editors now agree that doxxing is good?
The data in this one makes no sense.
This isn't Anon, this is someone else trying to discredit Anonymous before the real data comes out.
So, a lot of people have been asking about this...asking why so many of the addresses end in ".ru"
Fundamentally...think about it. Russia is a haven for a lot of different things, including bulletproof hosting that is beyond the reach of the FBI and other Western LEOs, either via direct raids, wiretaps or by more procedural means (subpoenas, etc.). So it entirely makes sense that people who are, in the truest sense of the word, interested in the overthrow of the US Government as it exists today should use email accounts that are hosted in Russia, far from the reach of the organizations that are out to get them.
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
Cases of arson, lynching, beatings, killings, cross burnings and voter suppression in an organized manner against a specific segment of the population? These activities have been ongoing for over a hundred years in a systematic manner? The frequency is down but it still occurs or is overlooked. I would call that terrorism at the very least.
Architectural plans are like computer source code with a couple of differences: You only compile once.
What is a terrorist?
a person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims.
the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
So are you saying that the KKK does not use violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims?
When you cant win, ad hominem.
Cases of arson, lynching, beatings, killings, cross burnings and voter suppression in an organized manner against a specific segment of the population?....The frequency is down but it still occurs or is overlooked.
But when was the last time any of that happened? I have not seen stories about anything like that for many years - the most recent stuff being black churches set fire to, which it turned out was not don't by the KKK at all (who would seem to have been a primary suspect).
I'm not saying the KKK has not been a horrible organization in the past, or even that they are in any way an organization that should be supported today. I'm saying that they have become essentially irrelevant, and the resources used to combat the "terrorists" of the KKK would be far better spent on real terrorists - but they aren't because the real terrorists can bite. Attacking the KKK like this is lame because it's pretending to help people while actually helping no-one.
The KKK is dying, why even give them the publicity these attacks grant? It can only help the KKK at this point.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
More blacks are murdered by other blacks in one year, than have been killed by the KKK in its entire existence.
See also "Worrying about the wrong problem"
But unlike being a criminal, being a Klan member indicates you are a bad person.
The names of a thousand hateful red necks.
"Redneck" is a racial slur. It insinuates that the target is, not just from a rural culture (especially - a poor white southern farmer), and not just sunburned on the back of his neck due to working outdoors with a short haircut, but also that he may be part American Indian. (It originates in a time where this was considered to be extremely "poor breeding", and many so-called "sundown towns" had laws requiring people with any American Indian genetics to be out of town by undown.
It currently has an implication that the pepole it is applied to are unintelligent and uneducated. (The space program proves the lie of this: Note the accents of the people involved. A substantial fraction of real rocket scientists are, and were, rednecks.) This slur dates at least to the Scopes Monkey Trial (which was largely a propaganda piece fomented by the mining interests to brand the miners, who were trying to unionize at the time, as igorant idiots in the urban east coast's public perception.)
Rule of thumb: If you don't self-identify as a redneck, and wouldn't use the "N" word, don't use the "R" word.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
You don't know anything about the Tea Party except what you've been told by CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, etc. If you knew anything about them, you'd probably agree with them. Don't let your ignorance blind you.
They are not a "hate" group and have plenty of black members. They even have a lot of members who are Democrats!
So are American's allowed to join ISIS and speak their mind about it?
No.
It seems only foreign terrorist organisations are banned. Domestic ones are allowed. And yes, the KKK is a terrorist group. How else can you describe their activities as "night riders". Lynching, burning and dragging black people.
their loudest voice is Sarah Palin, what more do you need to know?
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)