Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
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Re: Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
#2I wouldn’t be cheering this data breach on as if ‘Anonymous’ or other internet vigilantes are the good guys here (They are not).
Rather than cause a complete exposure of everyone’s sensitive data, just report whatever illegal content you find to the authorities to force Epik to take it down.
One day Anonymous is on your side and in the next day they are not. They can try to do this to anyone they don’t like, even if innocent users are involved.
That is not something to celebrate or cheer about, is it?
Re: Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
#3I wouldn’t be cheering this data breach on as if ‘Anonymous’ or other internet vigilantes are the good guys here (They are not). Rather than cause a complete exposure of everyone’s sensitive data, just report whatever illegal content you find to the authorities to force Epik to take it down. One day Anonymous is on your side and in the next day they are not. They can try to do this to anyone they don’t like, even if…
I don't see any cheering. It's reporting on the consequences of a serious data breach.
Re: Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
#4> The Post publicizes material obtained through hacking with caution, only after verifying its authenticity and ascertaining that there is news value in bringing such information to light.
Sure you do.
So let me just check here: Political purity as an employment requirement... Firing people for this is fine, right?
What happens when the popular politics change?
The "Moral Majority" folks were accused of wanting to be everything the Left has become.
Re: Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
#5I wonder if the headline would be the same if another group was the target.
Re: Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
#6So we have a newspaper in a city with 67.30% Whites and 15.43% Asian doing a little virtue signaling.
In the witch hunt they use illegally obtained information. How do we know that the data sets are even correct? Can one use information from a hack? Will these journalists be prosecuted like Assange for using such information?
I don't like the websites that the witch hunt target participated in, but public shaming like this (of non-politicians) is worse.
Re: Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
#7I wouldn’t be cheering this data breach on as if ‘Anonymous’ or other internet vigilantes are the good guys here (They are not). Rather than cause a complete exposure of everyone’s sensitive data, just report whatever illegal content you find to the authorities to force Epik to take it down. One day Anonymous is on your side and in the next day they are not. They can try to do this to anyone they don’t like, even if…
I don't see any cheering. It's reporting on the consequences of a serious data breach.
I am old enough to remember when a year ago, these same media companies censored the hunter Biden story falsely claiming it was Russian disinfo and result of hacking and thus didn't report it.
Do you really believe this is about data breach and not about only political vendetta? The article is doing a lot of cheering if you read the article.
Re: Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
#8I wouldn’t be cheering this data breach on as if ‘Anonymous’ or other internet vigilantes are the good guys here (They are not). Rather than cause a complete exposure of everyone’s sensitive data, just report whatever illegal content you find to the authorities to force Epik to take it down. One day Anonymous is on your side and in the next day they are not. They can try to do this to anyone they don’t like, even if…
I don't see any cheering. It's reporting on the consequences of a serious data breach.
Assuming you have read the article instead of the headline, the article mentions more than that and includes reactions from those who are relieved and cheering the news of the data breach.
Or are you going to continue to deny that the article didn’t mention this?
Re: Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
#9> The Post publicizes material obtained through hacking with caution, only after verifying its authenticity and ascertaining that there is news value in bringing such information to light. Sure you do. So let me just check here: Political purity as an employment requirement... Firing people for this is fine, right? What happens when the popular politics change? The "Moral Majority" folks were accused of wanting to be…
I think criticizing people for running websites like “theholocaustisfake” is less like “attacking people for having bad thoughts” and a bit more like “attacking people for poisoning the well”.
Re: Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
#10So we have a newspaper in a city with 67.30% Whites and 15.43% Asian doing a little virtue signaling. In the witch hunt they use illegally obtained information. How do we know that the data sets are even correct? Can one use information from a hack? Will these journalists be prosecuted like Assange for using such information? I don't like the websites that the witch hunt target participated in, but public shaming lik…
The article was originally published in the Washington Post.