The hacker group Anonymous has threatened to “dismantle Trump’s campaign.”
Anonymous is a hacker/activist (“hacktivist”) group. They first became famous for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against web sites and posting videos about their targets.
These videos include people wearing Guy Fawkes masks and their famous sign off:
“Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”
Now these hacktivists have decided to go after Donald Trump. They posted a video asking people to attack the candidate’s websites. The group first threatened to go after The Donald in December after his anti-Muslim comments. They took down some of his websites for a few hours, but they didn’t do anything major.
The hacktivist group also took credit for hacking Trump’s voicemail a couple of weeks ago. The MSNBC “liberal” reporters Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski can be heard on the recordings thanking Trump for his charitable donations. Trump can be heard telling the reporters to “make us all look good” and to not ask anything too hard on his interview. Another person, referred to as “T Hall,” said she celebrated his donation by using Trump’s discount at Gucci. Trump has now started making comments about how media members are “dishonest scum.”
This week, Anonymous has released a list of websites that they want to hack. Not only does it include his business site, trump.com, but it also includes his campaign website donaldjtrump.com. The group has announced that they intend to launch their next wave attacks April 1.
Anonymous will probably expose (more of) Trump’s backwards, hateful rhetoric. It is hard to believe that Trump could look any worse, but Anonymous will hopefully find all of his nasty secrets.
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