Posted on 05/03/2016 9:31:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ghost Squad, a hacking group spawned from the Anonymous hacktivist collective, claims it took down the official websites of the Black Lives Matter movement on 29 and 30 April in a protest against actions taken by some of the campaign's supporters.
According to Waqas Amir, a cybersecurity journalist based in Dubai and founder of HackRead, Ghost Squad conducted a series of persistent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against the official websites of the Black Lives Matter movement, beginning on Friday 29 April.
The DDoS attacks caused the web host for blacklifematters.org to completely suspend the domain, while the blacklivesmatter.com domain had its homepage defaced. Then, on 30 April, the Ghost Squad hackers took down the domain of blacklivesmatter.com worldwide again and posted proof on Twitter. Visitors who managed to access the domain received the message: "We're making a few updates and we'll be back shortly!"
Twitter user @_s1ege, one of the Ghost Squad members behind the attack, told HackRead: "We targeted the Black Lives Matter Movement. We have been watching several members of their movement hold racist signs and attack innocent individuals over cultural appropriation while speaking English.
"I, s1ege, started this operation after attacking the KKK [because] I realised the individuals in the Black Lives Matter movement were acting no better some even promote genocide of the Caucasian race. This will not be tolerated. What angered me and the other members of Ghost Squad was that the leaders also do not speak on this topic. This was not the dream of Martin Luther King Jr, and should not be supported or promoted by any movement. All Lives Matter!"
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The debate around Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement was formed in the US in 2013 in response to public outrage over the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was accused of second-degree murder over the shooting of African-American teenager Trayvon Martin. The movement gained even more momentum following the deaths of two more African Americans, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, spawning widespread protests and riots in Ferguson and New York.
The movement's aim is to address and highlight racial profiling and racial inequality in the US. There are now over 23 chapters of the movement across the US, Canada and Ghana.
However, some people in the US have responded to the Black Lives Matter movement by countering it with the phrase "#AllLivesMatter" on Twitter and offline, because they claim that all lives are equally at risk. This view has been heavily criticised by many in the media.
The phrase was used by supporters of Donald Trump to challenge black protesters at a Trump rally in Alabama in November 2015. In February 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to send out an internal memo rebuking his employees after some individuals crossed out handwritten "Black Lives Matter" phrases written on company walls and replaced them with "All Lives Matter".
The Anonymous hacking collective is large and often disorganised, but one of the group's main aims in recent years has been to fight against racism. In November 2015, the hacking collective made good on its threats and released a full list of names, aliases and social media profiles for 1,000 people alleged to be Ku Klux Klan (KKK) sympathisers. On 25 April, Ghost Squad took the official KKK website down with a DDoS attack.
Absolutely my favorite sort of fight: one where it’s just as satisfying if either combatant loses. ;)
If they want to get the Mother of all Racists, they need to take down the DNC’s site. JMO.
This is shocking news. The new offshoot group will be crushed by the left though.
Now if we can only instigate the looming battle between the homos and the islamists, that will be a lot of fun.
I put the homos at 8 to 1 underdogs.
Good enough odds for anyone to go all in
“I, s1ege, started this operation after attacking the KKK [because] I realised the individuals in the Black Lives Matter movement were acting no better some even promote genocide of the Caucasian race. This will not be tolerated. What angered me and the other members of Ghost Squad was that the leaders also do not speak on this topic. This was not the dream of Martin Luther King Jr, and should not be supported or promoted by any movement. All Lives Matter!”
#anonymouslivesmatter. LOL! Love it.
They will merge into one.
Interesting. I don’t buy into hegelian dialectics, but it would be quite a mental exercise to figure out how homos and islam become one. Barack Homobama can serve as one example.
But I thought all the Islamists were fags too
Some (many?) may be boy rapists, but that’s more of a will to dominate, not an expression of homo love.
They recently threatened Hillary Clinton. [grabs popcorn]
But as they go into battle, we will note that the uniforms on the homo side look FABULOUS!
I work in the IT field and I have buddies of mine who have spoke to those who follow these guys, and say what you will about them but they can be equal opportunity hackers whatever the cause will be, I shall stay updated on this.
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