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Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it. The international hacker community is preparing to strike against U.S. infrastructure and calls for public awareness against incoming fascism

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[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Exploit it you say? Please get in line behind the russians, the chinese snd pretty much all arab countries

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Anything supposedly said by "Anonymous" as a hacker group should always be treated with immense skepticism.

There do exist somewhat legitimate sub-factions that actually take serious actions and do serious ops, and also semi-legitimate "outlets" for their statements... but there's also an overwhelming amount of smokescreen bullshit "anon news outlets" and little script kiddies running around. It's important/intentional that those continue existing as smoke screen for the more "serious" factions.

Beyond that, being an anonymous group with no real methods of confirming membership to outsiders (insiders can just check if you're in the private IRCs and etc) it means that just about anyone and everyone can make some big declaration like this. The proof will be in the results, not some announcement that could be made by a rando.


All that said, there's convincing and considerable evidence (collected by Krebs) that members of Elon's DOGE group have background in the actual hacking ops spaces.

No matter who is really making these threats/warnings, I think things are going to get pretty dire in the US government IT space. It's been well known for decades that most government orgs have absolutely abysmal cyber security, and now you have a bunch of young adult tech-bros with no true accountability running roughshod over all of it. Then there's the fact that more than one of them have "serious black hat hacker" backgrounds.

Going to be one wild ride.

[–] AidsKitty@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're an American praising potential harm to America you should reexamine why you continue being a citizen here. If there are other countries more aligned with your personal morals and values please seek citizenship there.

[–] NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

The harm is already here, idiot.

That's why there's a traitorous felon squatting in the White House.