Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach

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Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach
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The headline itself made this worth sharing

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3000 files seems like an arbitary amount. Nothing's preventing you from creating a file for each passing millisecond.

What a relief, I'd hate to think those files ended up in the wrong paws hands.

Can the gay furries get the alien files next?

Wasn't that supposed to be the Naruto-running guy's job?

the group says it's gotten into the government web portal for the South African OR Tambo district

As a South African, that's not much of an accomplishment

Oh no, did the mass Activation of everyone yesterday contribute to this?

Holy shit, I mean hackers are bad but gay furry hackers...that's crossing the line.

We live in the dumbest timeline.

gay bad please like if you cri evrytim

It looks like you’re attempting English. Could you put just a bit more effort into it? I’d love to understand what it is you’re saying.

aight

i believe homosexuality is of lower morals, as such, i do request you to increase the positive vote count of my comment by one if you happened to weep upon reading the initial post.

Why would you believe that about homosexuality? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. Try and open your mind some. You might find yourself happier as a result.

??? i do believe to have misinterpreted your original comment, i don't have anything against queer folks (i kinda sorta am one), i would like to apologize for any inconvenience i have caused

Yeah. You misinterpreted. My original point was that it’s dumb that we’ve gotten to this point. Nothing at all to do with being gay. I’m totally open to that stuff. An ally if you will.

As a The Gay(TM), I won’t, please.

We want nothing to do with folks who miss obvious jokes.

You're being trolled because you missed the sarcasm in their original comment

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motive?

it's almost certainly a spoof cover of the Chinese or someone

You're asking why someone would hack one of the most evil organisations on earth?

Slow your roll there, Vlad. You have a whole other country to finish invading first.

...you didn't answer my question.

Oh the motive is probably because NATO is an organisation that overthrows governments like Libya. They probably wanted to see what NATO was planning on doing in Niger or another country they want to exploit.

Yet another reason to dislike furries, most unsurprising.

Tons of infosec folks are furries, gay etc.. I'm presuming, because having to hide your personality is quite the motivation to learn about potential attacks and defenses.

So, no matter whether you think of this particular stunt as good or bad, it's really not indicative of gay furry hackers a whole. Most of them are holding our IT infrastructure together, without doing big name hacks in their freetime.

the call from the gay furry hackers is coming from inside the house

Pretty sure it's mainly non-furry non-gay hackers that take down the majority of websites.