Anonymous Doxes Trump, But Leaked Info Underwhelms

Mic.com reports that the "total war" declared by Anonymous against presidential candidate Donald Trump has resulted in a grandly presented leak of some personal information. Items alleged to be personal information about Trump have been posted to PasteBin; these include a social security number purported to be his, contact information for some Trump business associates (including his agent and his lawyer's office), and some information about his family relationships. As Tech Insider points out, though, the YouTube video announcing the dump seems to overstate its significance, in that none of the information leaked is new or earth-shattering -- most of it could be quickly gleaned from a Google search or a visit to Wikipedia.

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Bullshit video

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't care about anonymous's childish and sensationalized political views, that's not how democracy works. Hackers shouldn't influence votes any more than the wealthy should. Either they found real dirt or they didn't. It seems they didn't.

Re:Bullshit video

[emazing]

We don't live in a democracy, especially one that works. Mainstream media has way too much of an affect on people's choice as it is. If some people want to publish a sensationalized video with facts that are true, so be it.

Re:Bullshit video

[davester666]

Clearly Bernie Sanders is behind this attack, and therefore, Bernie Sanders is Anonymous. Arrest him!

Re:Bullshit video

[Taco Cowboy]

... Clearly Bernie Sanders is behind this attack ...

[ Citation please ! }

Re:Bullshit video

[butzwonker]

Thanks to something called the Internet people today have much broader access to independent sources of news, information, interpretations and opinions than ever before in history.

You might not like to face the truth, but there are good reasons for claiming that this is also one of the main reasons for an emergence of new forms of radicalism, a general increase of stupidity and a substantial decline of political culture ...

Enemies of anonymity

[DontHackMeBro]

By causing trouble anonymously, Anonymous are technically working as agents for those entities (such as Russia) which would like to eliminate anonymity.

False Flag Operation?

[Freshly Exhumed]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous. The track record of the "real" Anonymous shows a level and depth of skill that does not correlate with this lowball drivel.

Re:False Flag Operation?

[Kohath]

And if you want a Trump elected, this sort of thing helps him out a lot. Other things that help him:
- any negative comments from Bush or Romney
- any negative comments from Mexican government leaders
- protests like the ones in Chicago. The more disruptive the protests, the more it helps Trump.
- any big business CEOs or Chamber of Commerce leaders speaking out against him
- any negative comments from Obama.
- any other foreign leaders or celebrities speaking out against him

If you want him to win easily, keep it up.

Re:False Flag Operation?

[stephanruby]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous. The track record of the "real" Anonymous shows a level and depth of skill that does not correlate with this lowball drivel.

It's the same thing with the user on slashdot called "Anonymous Coward". Sometimes, "Anonymous Coward" can be super insightful and eloquent, the rest of the time, I feel the FBI is trying to run a false flag operation against its reputation by spouting off spammy, racist, and idiotic comments under its handle. The FBI truly has no shame.

Trump is untouchable

[SuperKendall]

This just goes to show that Trump is untouchable.

Most people have something to hide. But Trump has been so public for so long, that anything even vaguely interesting was discovered and unveiled long ago.

This is exactly why "trumped" up reports of things like racism don't hold water and don't affect Trump in the polls - because most people in America know his history with things like choosing a black woman as w winner on the Apprentice (someone who supports his candidacy now BTW), or his supposed hatred of immigrants when everyone knows he married a few (and probably slept with many more).

Re:Trump is untouchable

[LynnwoodRooster]

Is he undergoing an FBI investigation like another candidate?

Re:Trump is untouchable

[gerddie]

As an outside observer I think the main divide between Republicans and Democrats is that of idealists and pragmatics.

I think it's more like Jarod Kintz put it in This Book is Not FOR SALE: “There exists a big circus tent, and the right entrance is named The Republicans, and the left entrance is called The Democrats. People argue over which is the correct path, not realizing everyone inside is a clown.”

Not far enough

[s.petry]

Come now, if you are going to go the conspiracy route you have to look deeper than a single layer. Trump is being attacked by _everyone_ except the public who is supporting him.

I find it much more likely that this is a two-for. Try and make Trump look bad and at the same time make Anonymous look bad. The elitist pricks holding power don't like either of them very much.

All that goodness out in the open, if Anonymous does not come out and declare victimization then it is most likely yet a poor mission by them. Not everything they have done has been successful or grand. I find the latter more likely than any conspiracy. Anonymous also threatened Hillary and did a bit of damage. Nothing that the corrupt media could not cover up, unfortunately.

Anonymous isn't one person

[YesIAmAScript]

Anyone can be Anonymous. It's not possible to have a false flag.

If it seems like goobers did this, then probably goobers did this. And some past Anonymous operations have also been seemingly done by goobers.

Re:Morons

[alzoron]

The thing about Doxxing is that we already know most of the "dirt" about Trump. Most of the stuff about him that would kill other potential candidates he wears like a badge of honor. His whole campaign basically depends on being the biggest piece of shit candidate running to make all the small people feel like their faults aren't really all that bad and maybe even ok.

Re:Why the Butthurtness?

[kuzb]

You mean like when you voted G.W. Bush in?

I **DO** want Donald J. Trump elected

[Taco Cowboy]

Although I was not born in the United States of America, I am still an American, and I am sick and tired of what has happened to my government for the past 30+ years !

It is time we kick out the D.C. establishment and get somebody else in

I am not saying that Donald Trump will be a great POTUS, but at the very least, compare to what Obama has done (for the past 7 years) and to what George W. Bush did (during his 8 year tenure) no matter how hard Donald J. Trump tries to screw up, he won't be as bad as Obama/GW Bush

Re:Again, this can only help Cruz

[Princeofcups]

Hillary can beat Drumpf without working too hard. Sanders can beat Drumpf without even needing to open his mouth. Frankly the democrats could run a ficus tree and almost certainly defeat Drumpf.
 

That's what we said about George W., and look what happened. Agreed, it took some ballot stuffing to make it official, but it was not the landslide for Gore everyone predicted. People voted for that dumb fuck. They will vote for Trump, in droves.