Posted on 09/21/2021 1:15:51 PM PDT by devane617
Epik long has been the favorite Internet company of the far-right, providing domain services to QAnon theorists, Proud Boys and other instigators of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — allowing them to broadcast hateful messages from behind a veil of anonymity.
But that veil abruptly vanished last week when a huge breach by the hacker group Anonymous dumped into public view more than 150 gigabytes of previously private data — including user names, passwords and other identifying information of Epik’s customers.
Extremism researchers and political opponents have treated the leak as a Rosetta Stone to the far-right, helping them to decode who has been doing what with whom over several years. Initial revelations have spilled out steadily across Twitter since news of the hack broke last week, often under the hashtag #epikfail, but those studying the material say they will need months and perhaps years to dig through all of it.
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“A lot of research begins with naming names,” Best said. “There’s a lot of optimism and feeling of being overwhelmed, and people knowing they’re in for the long haul with some of this data.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The Capital marshmallow was the attacker.
Remember when the media and the internet was against posting hacked materials? Yeah, me too.
Epik hack - bump for later....
The only ones I saw were the article itself - for sheer ugly gloating and sneering glee at a felony perpetrated against the authors' class enemies it'd be hard to beat outside the pages of Der Sturmer. The authors have outdone themselves, and that isn't even close to a compliment.
I honestly have no idea what to believe anymore.
Hell, I don’t even understand what country I live in anymore, and I’m only in my 40’s.
Never heard of it.
no one has to hack any accounts to find out i’m on the right and i detest everything on the left. from the public sh*tting in the streets, to child molestation, to the nonstop espionage helping china gain anything and everything we have.
of course, the reason they want to find those people on the right is... the ‘investigators’ are on the rabid left and are working to destroy the country. going after patriots is in their playbook.
Is there any evidence yet that a hack really took place and that this isn’t just “anonymous” sources? (am not going to click over to the washpo website).
They started out as a pro-Western Civilization, traditional values drinking club led by Gavin McGinnes. Their (current? Recent past?) president, post-Gavin, was a brown Hispanic guy, so of course they’re white supremacists to Leftist extremists.
Am I missing something? Why wouldn’t Epik have accounts for people like Hunter Bai-din, ‘Nursing Home Killer’ Cuomo, and every Leftist they could find?
I’m not paying for the article. Who funded them?
that’s exactly why you can’t take anything at face value, this hack is supposed to obviously show the coordination of right wing groups that need to be cracked down on....
!. The leak probably happened back in February.
2. The Epik application contained many obvious vulnerabilities.
3. It was probably simply a trap for conservatives and others to be lured in and then have their personal information exposed.
Just get “NoScript and “Ghostery” addons.
With these the article text all displays. The only element that isn’t working correctly is the image.
Brutal oppression is coming.
We have yet to grasp just how evil Democrats have become.
include Charlottesville in their false flags. That was McAwful’s operation.
It’s really easy to find the Trump supporters...just drive around and look for the fences, Gates and houses decorated with Trump signs and flags. You don’t need to hack anyone because there is no secret...
If our side didn’t have guns, they would just hunt us down like dogs.
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Wait long enough without using them, and they will “hunt us down like dogs”. They are just testing the waters now to see how far they can go and what they can get away with.
What will it take?
Open borders? Nope.
Importing hundreds of thousands of unknown people into the US and giving them green cards? Nope.
Surrendering to terrorists? Nope.
Leaving US citizens in enemy hands? Nope.
Giving terrorists billions of dollars and advanced weapons? Nope.
Forcing people to take a experimental genetic serum against their will? Nope.
Crashing US credit, hyperinflation, border states taken over by Mexican cartels? Just what?
1. Mildly successful, middle aged men who think they look tacticool running around the woods playing airsoft, and
2. Feds
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