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 ...
....... Hmmmmm ..... Lawsuit anyone?
If our side didn’t have guns, they would just hunt us down like dogs.
The hack was probably by NSA/CIA.
Our own are the enemy.
Cant read the rest of the article unless I subscribe??
if someone is stupid enough to dox these guys and show up at their front doors they will get what they deserve.
RE: the first sentence.
The Capital was attacked on January 6? I read about that. One innocent white woman was shot and killed by the attackers. And hundreds are held as political prisoners by the attackers.
There are ways to read the article...A Windows user may be able to help...
And if they had found something they would’ve led with it.
Clearly this is an expression of paranoia by me, but anonymous could easily be the FBI. Why not let the private sector serve as a force multiplier?
Understand that this represents a massive breach into right wing politics. This is akin to a union spy finding battle plans in a confederate commander’s tent. This could signal a massive setback for right-of-center American politics.
Cant read the rest of the article unless I subscribe??
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It’s a Wapuke article with a blatant lie in the first sentence.
Why would anyone want to read any more?
thanks.
and thanks.
On windows, press CTRL-A & CTRL-C as soon as the site opens. Then paste into a text editor.
Not pretty. But it works.
Is there any other kind of Washington Compost article? Admittedly sometimes they wait until the second or third sentence to lie.....
“It LOOKS like a newspaper, but it’s NOT”
Absolutely! The most likely source for most of the names is the Deep State. The fact that they admitted that it will take months to unravel this simply proves there's nothing there.
Cool!
It worked, but you gotta be quick.
Hit the COPY before the popup.
Blue Anon.
Why isn’t that addressed as a bad thing? The article presents it as a neutral incident, and the availability of the information for further doxxing as a good thing.
If a bunch of leftists or Antifa people got doxxed I’d feel the same way. People’s privacy and it’s perceived value shouldn’t depend on their politics.
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