Anonymous is at it again.
The hacking group claimed last month to have hacked multiple KKK Twitter accounts, and obtained some membership rosters of the KKK. This list includes a number of other prominent politicians across the country. Anonymous said it would be unmasking Klan members around the anniversary of the Ferguson protests.
Here is the full listing of political figures — including NC Senator Thom Tillis — that Anonymous claims to be linked to the notorious hate group, which got on Anonymous’ bad side last year when a chapter threatened to use “lethal force” against protesters in Ferguson, Mo.
[REMOVED BY ADMIN]It is not immediately clear what impact, if any, this will have. None of this, it seems, can be proved. Not yet anyway.
But will the mainstream press start looking into it?
UPDATE: Yup…. USA TODAY has it….
UPDATE #2:
This account has NOT YET released any information. We believe in due diligence and will NOT recklessly involve innocent individuals #OpKKK
— Operation KKK (@Operation_KKK) November 2, 2015
Yup. There was something about the release of names that had a certain casual-ness about them. Anonymous usually does some vetting in order to maintain credibility, and this stuff seemed unvetted. In light of that, I will remove the information.
As the New York Times once wrote (and I’m paraphrasing), “Anonymous is a small cadre of hacking geniuses surrounded by a sea of computer idiots.”