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Recently anonymous has said they will release the names of many Klu Klux Klan members.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anonymous-kkk-identities_56308b60e4b0631799101e7f
Several names of public elected officials who Anonymous claims are members of the KKK were released today but at least one site has deleted the page listing those names.
It's easy enough to find the list if you're interested but I'll wait until something like the A.P., Reuters, the BBC or some other reputable source prints the names.
It'll be interesting to see if what the evidence Anonymous has for their list... and how individuals with strong evidence against them react, especially the ones who are elected officials.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anonymous-kkk-identities_56308b60e4b0631799101e7f
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/258721-anonymous-threatens-to-unmask-alleged-kkk-membersComment
Anonymous Vows To Unhood 1,000 Ku Klux Klan Members
The hacktivist collective says it will release the identities around the anniversary of the Ferguson protests.
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Dominique Mosbergen
Senior Writer, The Huffington Post
Posted: 10/28/2015 09:52 AM EDT | Edited: 10/28/2015 10:00 AM EDT
<span class='image-component__caption' itemprop="caption">Members of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan march along a street on Aug. 28, 2004, in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The hacker group Anonymous has vowed to reveal the identities of 1,000 KKK members.</span> ASSOCIATED PRESS Members of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan march along a street on Aug. 28, 2004, in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The hacker group Anonymous has vowed to reveal the identities of 1,000 KKK members.
As the first anniversary of the Ferguson protests approaches, a group identifying itself as the hactivist collective Anonymous has issued a threat to members of the Ku Klux Klan:
In November of last year, Anonymous members launched Operation KKK, or #OpKKK, after a chapter of the KKK reportedly threatened to use "lethal force" against people protesting the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
At the time, the hacker collective vowed to wage a "cyber war" against the hate group, saying: "You messed with our family and now we will mess with yours."
Within a couple of days of launching the #OpKKK campaign last year, Anonymous members claimed to have taken over the KKK’s main Twitter account and other websites associated with the group.
"We want the KKK gone, forever," a person going by the username “SiX” told The Huffington Post last November in an Anonymous Internet Relay Chat about the operation. "Don’t worry, we know what we’re doing."
In the aftermath of Anonymous' cyber takedown, several members of the KKK reportedly left the group after having their identities exposed.
On Tuesday, Operation KKK released a new message to the hate group: It's vowing to publicly release the identities of up to 1,000 KKK members "around the one year anniversary of #OpKKK."
In a press release, the hacker group wrote:
Ku Klux Klan, we never stopped watching you. We know who you are … We never said we would only strike once ... After closely observing so many of you for so very long, we feel confident that applying transparency to your organizational cells is the right, just, appropriate and only course of action ... You are more than extremists. You are more than a hate group. You operate much more like terrorists and you should be recognized as such. You are terrorists that hide your identities beneath sheets and infiltrate society on every level.
Anonymous initially set its sights on the KKK last year amid the unrest in Ferguson, Mo.
In the protests surrounding the shooting death Michael Brown, a local KKK chapter threatened to use “lethal force” to defend itself from the “terrorists masquerading as ‘peaceful protesters’”
The protesters, the Klan warned, had “awakened a sleeping giant.”
Anonymous-led hackers quickly infiltrated the organization’s Twitter account and started forcing KKK websites offline. Since then, the two have traded barbs — vitriolic insults from KKK leaders and mocking tweets from Anonymous.
"Sounds to me like a bunch of kids in their mom's basement whacking off," Imperial Wizard Frank Ancona of the Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK told the New York Daily News last year.
The group responded by tweeting a picture of a unicorn from a KKK Twitter account.
Since then the fight has gone quiet.
But Anonymous is planning to resurrect its assault in the coming weeks, roughly one year since it first declared cyber war on the Klan. The group said this week it had used the last year to investigate the group and determine whether it merely espoused hateful rhetoric, or whether it was promoting active violence.
“You are abhorrent. Criminal. You are more than extremists. You are more than a hate group. You operate much more like terrorists and you should be recognized as such,” Anonymous said in its Tuesday statement. “You are terrorists that hide your identities beneath sheets and infiltrate society on every level. The privacy of the Ku Klux Klan no longer exists in cyberspace.”
The KKK is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group.
The Klan itself says it is protecting the existence of the “white race” and Christianity, while promoting a rule of law based on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
“Our children, our race, and our Nation have no future unless we unite and organize White Christian Patriots,” reads one of the Klan’s major websites.
Since its peak in the early 20th century, the KKK has fallen from roughly four million members to somewhere between 5,000 and 8,000 members today, according to the SPLC.
If those numbers are accurate, exposing 1,000 of those members would represent a significant portion of the entire organization.
Several names of public elected officials who Anonymous claims are members of the KKK were released today but at least one site has deleted the page listing those names.
It's easy enough to find the list if you're interested but I'll wait until something like the A.P., Reuters, the BBC or some other reputable source prints the names.
It'll be interesting to see if what the evidence Anonymous has for their list... and how individuals with strong evidence against them react, especially the ones who are elected officials.
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