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Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the the-beginning-of-the-end dept.

An anonymous reader writes from Business Insider's article: Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivist collective have vowed to relaunch cyber-operations against US presidential candidate Donald Trump [on April Fools' Day]. They threaten to "dismantle his campaign" by taking his election websites offline in a large-scale and orchestrated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. In December 2015, Anonymous officially "declared war" on Trump after a radical speech in which he said Muslims should be banned from entering the United States. The operation at the time resulted in a number of websites being targeted by hackers, but failed to have lasting impact. A new video statement has been posted to YouTube which claims the "loyalists and veterans" of Anonymous have decided to ramp up cyber-operations against Trump -- dubbed #OpTrump -- on a far larger scale than ever before. "Dear Donald Trump, we have been watching you for a long time and what we see is deeply disturbing. Your inconsistent and hateful campaign has not only shocked the United States of America [but] you have shocked the entire planet with your appalling actions and ideas. You say what your audience wants to hear but in reality you don't stand for anything except for your personal greed and power."
The websites targeted in the attack (so far) include trump.com, donaldjtrump.com, and trumphotelcollection.com. In addition, the hacktivists are also planning to release some of Donald Trump's personal information including a SSN, phone number, and contact information of his agent and legal representative.

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  1. ~50% by kheldan · · Score: -1, Troll

    About half the time I like what Anonymous does. This is definitely one of those times. :-)

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    1. Re:~50% by xevioso · · Score: -1, Troll

      Because they aren't psycopaths, psychopath.

    2. Re:~50% by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: -1, Troll

      You would think that is all that is needed, right? The fact remains that this idiot keeps running his ignorant cocksucker and almost half the country cheers. I am officially on record as saying that if we could somehow kill every moron that even listens to Trump the world would be a much better place.

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  2. all smoke, no fire by XXongo · · Score: -1, Troll
    Well, except that this one seem to be all smoke, no fire.

    That seems to be the pattern-- "she's certain to be indicted for this purported scandal. Well, there was nothing there, but anyway she's certain to be indicted for that purported scandal. Well, that turned out to be nothing, but she'd really certain to be indicted for this other purported scandal..."

    None of them ever seem to have any real substance. But the endless barrage of smoke keeps getting generated.

  3. Re:Nothing to see. by rahvin112 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Retroactive classification of material doesn't make the prior non classified handling of it illegal. It's called ex post facto, you can't be charged for a crime when something wasn't a crime when you did it.