“Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Over Project 2025

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theintercept.com

SiegedSec, a collective of self-proclaimed “gay furry hackers,” has claimed credit for breaching online databases of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that spearheaded the rightwing Project 2025 playbook. On Wednesday, as part of string of hacks aimed at organizations that oppose trans rights, SiegedSec released a cache of Heritage Foundation material.

In a post to Telegram announcing the hack, SiegedSec called Project 2025 “an authoritarian Christian nationalist plan to reform the United States government.” The attack was part of the group’s #OpTransRights campaign, which recently targeted rightwing media outlet Real America’s Voice, the Hillsong megachurch, and a Minnesota pastor.

In his foreword to the Project 2025 manifesto, the Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin Roberts, rails against “the toxic normalization of transgenderism” and “the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology.” The playbook’s other contributors call on “the next conservative administration” to roll back certain policies, including allowing trans people to serve in the military.

“We’re strongly against Project 2025 and everything the Heritage Foundation stands for,” one of SiegedSec’s leaders, who goes by the handle vio, told The Intercept.

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These fuckers are finding out how many queer people are very good with computers.

Fursuits cost money, working with computers (typically) pays well; it's a tale as old as... the internet?

Yes, but only because before the Internet they weren't called furries. (I don't know if there was a different name. I don't even know if it was A Thing.)

He so prostituted his own chastity that after defiling almost every part of his body, he at last devised a kind of game, in which, covered with the skin of some wild animal, he was let loose from a cage and attacked the private parts of men and women, who were bound to stakes, and when he had sated his mad lust, was dispatched​ by his freedman Doryphorus;

  • The Roman Emperor Nero roleplaying and protoyiffing

Not in its current form, no.

There definitely were furries, but we didn't form a cohesive subculture until we started getting online in the late 80's.

There’s a reason “furries run the internet” is only kinda a joke

If there's a prize for the Best Headline of 2024 out there, this one should win the trophy.

I mean it's just got everything going for it!

I dunno man, this one is good but that phallic iceberg off the coast of Dildo might have it beat

I think 2024 has a lot more in store for us to make that claim this soon.

I'll set a reminder so us church ladies can discuss on Jan 1, 2025. ;)

The Gay Agenda

  1. Be gay
  2. Do crimes
  3. Brunch
4 more...

Little more info

Reportedly 2gb of data

The data includes the “full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames” of people associating with Heritage, vio said, including users with U.S. government email addresses. “This itself can have an impact to heritage’s (sic) reputation,” they added, “and it’ll especially push away users in positions of power.”

(And thank you gay furry hackers 🫡)

i always knew furries would save us but i thought society would collapse madmax style first

If I ever find these hackers I'm going to treat them to lunch.

They were gay children then professionals and furries. These hackers have been breathing operational security their whole lives. You probably find them when some Morpheus dude in assless chaps offers you two different brands of poppers.

Is gay furry hackers the hacker known as 4chan’s cousin?

No one cared who anon was until they put on the suit and tail plug.

And we all really started paying attention when they put on cat ears.

And some of us got confused when we found out those ears had dicks.

I read the group name as "Guy Fieri hackers" for some reason. Was confused there for a moment.

I may need more sleep.

Or a drink (if you partake).

It's 5:00 pm somewhere.

Damn the "rule" is 4 pm here.

Where is this magical place? 365 extra hours of debauchery a year?!

Netherlands, the rule is no beer before four. (Geen bier voor vier)

I checked the article to see if this was the NULLBULGE folks again, but no, this was reportedly executed by SiegedSec. A different queer furry hacker group.

gay furry hacker group? sorry, this is the trans therian greyhat group. though if you're looking for the queer scaly infosec group they're right down the hall

I mean, there is never enough gay/furry hacking groups rooting for our rights. Keep it up!

Well it wasn't going to be the straight furry hackers.

It’s about damn time these hacker groups started working with their fellow peasants, instead of against them.

there are other kinds of hackers?

Was thinking the triple redundancy must be for security purposes, but I don't own stripey knee socks so obviously know nothing of IT.

what about that transphobe misandrist hacker that does Denuvo cracks?

Whenever I see the words "gay furry hackers" in a headline, I smile.

So it was an inside job from the closet crew of these comic book villains of our dystopian reality.

This is really cool, but I would personally never call out I was part of a hack on anyone just in case they gain enough power to have me murdered. That, and the legal troubles that could follow. I can't think of many things scarier than conservatives who cheat and don't play by the rules coming after you legally because they will make sure you go bankrupt or worse.

Despite providing a username, it’s probably more difficult for the Heritage foundation to find them than it was for the hacker(s) to gain entry to the system. Even the announcement was encrypted via telegram.

Even the announcement was encrypted via telegram.

What? It's a regular telegram post, not at all encrypted.

What specifically did they find that's juicy? The text in that forward?

Because TBH those quotes are about what I'd expect.

When horrible people (furry) hurt other horrible people (Republicans).

I guess I'm rooting for the lesser of two evils again, but it's not a victory I enthusiastic about. Anyway, suck it fascists.

Furries are not horrible people. Weird with weird preferences sure, but FAR from horrible.

Wtf are on about? What have furries ever done to you?

I have no idea, but this isn't the first time they've gotten irrationally upset about them:

Yeah I’m not too happy with all the kids, mostly because they largely ruined animal humanoids with their weird furry BS, and they think Critical Role is some kind of good demonstration on what a real session is like and not a well funded production.

https://lemmy.world/comment/11069488

That was a in a thread about D&D and the creator's sexism.

Also, I haven't met too many furries, but the ones I've met seemed like decent people.

'the ones I've met seemed like decent people."

Squid hits the nail on the head here. Furries are just being themselves, which we are always told we should be. Until some old fart gets all twisted up on hate by preach everyone should be as bitter and twisted as they are.

Hell, there are so many more pressing issues in the world to deal with. Who cares who love whom or what. Let's focus on the bigger issues like corruption, greed, and tribalism. Who fucken cares if Fred loves Fred, or Jane wants to marry Jane.

I want to worry about how many dollars are getting stuffed into political or judicial pockets. That's the real issue.

the Sam Bankman-Fried FTX trial kind of told it all when it came out in sworn testimony that politicians are such a value buy, and to get media all over your Democratic bribes, but best to keep the equal RNC ones dark. How could you be blind to the Supreme Court justices being bought? But look! some people are fighting on an airplane, people tweeted about tipping culture and omg somebody old trended and people thought they died but not yet!

Don’t assume all furries or all republicans are horrible. Then you are being just like the republicans man.

Oh, c'mon now, we are well beyond the point of giving Republicans any claim to decency. The entire party has fallen to Fascism. They're on the same trajectory as the the Nazi party pre-holocaust, and on the same trajectory to be just as evil.

The entirety of Republicanism is centered around hatred of minority groups. They don't even care about economics anymore, they just want to exterminate trans people and reverse civil rights.

As for flurries, they are a rather wonderful queer subculture full of compassionate creative people who love to share their love for anthropomorphism with others.

To compare the two is quite insulting. One group is a group of people who wants to have fun and be happy, the other group wants to see the first group dead.

It's not difficult to pick a side.

How are furries bad? Maybe they have a weird kink and / or hobby, but hey, let them live their lives.

Bro you're on Lemmy. It's mostly furries here. How did you think this comment would go?

I'm not concerned with points or score. I cannot abide bestiality-adjacent people who have a disproportionally high number of groomers in their community. I may not be able to stop them from being an abomination, they should absolutely be on some kind of watchlist. You be an apologist if you want, I can't stop you, but I won't let it be sugar coated whether y'all want to admit there's a problem or not.

Any group is comprised of groomers and bestiality practitioners if you tell yourself they are and refuse to actually look into what they represent.

Huh. I hear drag queens and trans people have a high number of groomers in their community. I used to hear it about gay men too (and sometimes still do). I wonder if that's actually just a lie designed to demonize a marginalized community?

Oh, but I'm sure it's true this time.

I cannot abide bestiality-adjacent people who have a disproportionally high number of groomers in their community.

Citation needed. Tbh this sounds like a fascinating dataset but I'm skeptical it even exists.

Ironic you're on a post like this preaching hate and misinformation. Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see how it turns out for ya.

I didn't apologize for anything or side with anything

"beastiality-adjacent"? Furries HATE Zoos. Don't even go there. If you cross that line you will be exiled from the Furry community. They will doxx you and they will beat your ass if you ever show up to another con. Whatever you think you know about the furry community, you are dead wrong. Zoophiles are disgusting and Furries will single them out and throw them under the bus when we find them.

Animals are friends, not mates. Furries have plenty of other Furries to fuck anyway.

I remember when it was cool to hate furries on the internet, 2003 was a trip.... A trip best not repeated.