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Dissension Grows Inside Anonymous Because Of Political Propaganda (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report on Softpedia: Political tensions relating to the U.S. presidential race are creating turmoil inside the Anonymous hacker collective, muddling waters even more in a group that's known for its lack of leadership and a common goal. The most recent Anonymous infighting relates to the actions of the group's most famous news portal known as AnonHQ, who's been showing downright public support for Bernie Sanders, while being extremely busy at bashing Trump, Cruz, and more recently issuing video threats against Clinton. Ever since Anonymous' official news source has started showing public support for Sanders, many of the group's divisions have publicly disavowed it and have even gone so far as launching constant waves of DDoS attacks at what once used to be the hacker's official news portal. Last month, when a former Anonymous member decided to dox himself, he said in interviews that the group had been infiltrated by government agents.
In other news, there's also growing dissent among ACs on Slashdot
Will the ACs ever come to agree with each other, or will the AC group dissolve completely into different factions?
Tune in at 11 PM to find out more.
I was thinking, it would be pretty cool if Slashdot had submissions about technology, science, and maybe even computing. I know this is mainly a political site, but I think some people might find submissions about non-political stories interesting. Maybe there could even be some submissions about computer programming on the front page every now and then.
When will the morons in the media get it? Anonymous isn't an organized group. There is no central command, no inner circle to infiltrate. There are people who publicly label themselves "Anonymous", and there are many, many more who are Anonymous that you never see. It's in the fucking tagline - "We Are Legion".
What you have here are two fake PR fronts fighting it out for who can pretend to control a group of random hackers whom they neither know, nor represent.
Fake PR front #1: "Anonymous is targeting drug dealers and Trump today, here I'm genuine, see my well stitched flag and high quality video production standards"
Fake PR front #2: "No, I'm the real PR outlet for "Anonymous", don't listen him, we're totally not, we're targetting Somali pirates and Clinton, see my more believable grunge website"
You know how it works, they are hackers, they come and go, live their lives, gets jobs, or girlfriends. They get pissed at stuff sometimes and hack it if they have time and when they find a hole, and dump the result to pastebin if the hack is successful. Anonymous is just an internet MEME used by every changing random hackers.
We know they've hacked something when the hacked data appears.
So how could such random people ever have an "official news outlet" if there's no "official" in charge of them?
I totally agree. Not only are there more political stories, they're decidedly left-leaning. It's getting even worse in the comments. I remember when government was "the man"' and hackers were mostly libertarian. Now every Slashdot issue seems to end up as a fight for who can hand government more power and control. (Don't like big corporations? Why do you think big government is better? Maybe small both is best. Bernie Sanders? Give me a break. Do you know how other countries provide college for free? They pick the people who are allowed to go.)
The more Slashdot becomes a hang out for privleged young lefties to tell everyone how to think, the more I just want to chuck the whole thing. And fwiw, I've been a daily visitor since I downloaded Debian onto floppies with my 28.8 modem.
You know why it's getting worse in the comments?
People using words like 'left wing' and 'right wing' and then believing they're talking about tech. Calling themselves 'libertarian' and then claiming all hackers used to be libertarian because they never met any but assume because it would make sense in their own heads.
Also, when people tell you you're fucking stupid, you assume they're 'left wing' because of your political position, when really they just want you to stop talking because you're fucking stupid.
NB i also have a 5 digit ID and stopped coming back here regularly years ago. I'm disappointed to see you're still fucking stupid.
I've seen reports that all her speeches where for companies that had business before the state department.
I imagine the speech transcript consist of much more than "thanks, as soon as the check clears, I'll start working on making whatever happen."
But then again, I'm convinced Hillary is actually more crooked than the vast right wing conspiracy wants you to think she is.
I know, scary isn't it? Hillary is Republican light and Trump acts all "for the common man" and both of them are opportunists and liars who aren't ever going to show their true colours until the shit hits the fan when we find out were all fucked to hell no matter which one wins.....
Reality has a well known left-wing bias
apparent only to those who try to ignore it.
Care to explain why the US market has recovered faster than the EU? Everyone on the left agrees we did to little stimulus and yet here we are and there they are. Greece is about to collapse again, Spain and France have deep likely unsolvable structural problems... The one nation that is doing exceptionally well Germany adopted the more conservative policies...
Lets face it, progressives are just as bone headed as their reactionary counter parts. There really is a middle right leaning road the yields the best results.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
I'm convinced that the Republicans are letting Trump lead their party's nominations because they are just as excited about Hillary becoming president as the Democrats are. She has always struck me as completely and totally for sale, way more so than most politicians even.