Members of Anonymous have made good on their pledge to post information on individuals associated with the Ku Klux Klan. Although this site will not be publishing any of the personal information they released, I think their prefatory statement is important in understanding their thinking on #OpKKK and the Klan. Here’s part of their articulate and thoughtful…
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Indian Trade Groups Probe GIA Data Breach Linked to Contractor’s Employee
Rapaport News reports: India’s Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and the Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) have formed a joint committee to investigate the alteration of Gemological Institute of America (GIA) diamond grading reports, according to The Times of India (TOI). The GIA last week published the names and suspended the accounts of 19 firms implicated in the…
Anonymous denies releasing incorrect Ku Klux Klan member information
Nicky Woolf and Zach Stafford report: The hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has denied involvement in a data-dump on Monday that incorrectly outed several politicians as being members of the Ku Klux Klan. On 29 October, the group said on a Twitter account called Operation KKK and through a YouTube video that it had obtained a list of names of…
Two arrests made after confidential information on pope is stolen
Shelley Chandler reports: Investigators with the Vatican City police force arrested a high-ranking member of the clergy along with a Vatican employee for leaking confidential documents. Read more on Wireless Goodness.
Anonymous starts to reveal KKK members’ details in #OpKKK
Samburaj Das reports: Anonymous has made good on its threat to expose KKK members on the internet to reveal phone numbers and emails of alleged KKK members. Activist collective Anonymous has long had a feud with members of the radical Ku Klux Klan. There is a history there. Recently, Anonymous threatened to dox a thousand members…
Hacktivism: A single hacker is taking down racist and homophobic sites one by one
Emil Protalinski writes: A hacker who goes by the name of Amped Attacks specializes in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). Unlike some hackers who take out websites and services that many rely on, Amped Attacks prefers to target racist and homophobic bullshit. Read more on VentureBeat. While some may nod their heads approvingly because well, we hate these sites,…