I’ve spoken with State Police on this, so now I can give out more information on the “threat” that Larry Campbell talked about at last night’s Danville City Council meeting. Let’s do a BreakDown.
The Virginia Fusion Center is a clearinghouse for all potential threats and liabilities that come from law enforcement intelligence operations. Yesterday, a video clip was released by someone claiming to represent a group called “Anonymous CSA”. This is a take on the well-known “Anonymous” hacktivist group that cyber-attacks organizations that do bad things.
The threat to Campbell and two other elected officials was to “dox” them. “Doxxing” is the release of personal information such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, credit reports and things like that. It’s embarrassing and can cause identity theft problems, but it’s not a physical threat in any way. The Fusion Center said the group had not shown any indications of technical capabilities and that the group wasn’t believed to have the capabilities to commit computer intrusions.
The report also said that the real Anonymous group could show this Anonymous CSA group some negative intentions because that’s not the way the real “Anonymous” group operates and the new group would be corrupting their name by their efforts.
There you go, folks.
Thank you SC!
Is there any evidence that the “threat” was real, or not from somebody who would like to see the flag removed? It would not be the first time that tactic has been used to throw a negative light on a particular issue.
While that will probably never be provable, this “group” has done similar threats in the past. I consider the threat to be legitimate (but unlikely to be followed through on).
Would you agree it is possible? Is it “provable” who did it?
I saw the video they put out, it was not doxxing, it was slamder by anonymous masked person!
Not everything Anonymous does is bad by any means. Here’s their #1 and most recent good deed. Follow the link below for 7 more pretty OK things.
1. Just this month, Anonymous began “Operation Free Korea.” It’s the group’s effort to get “controversial leader Kim Jong-un to resign,” “install free democracy,” “abandon nuclear ambition,” and grant “uncensored internet access” to its citizens. On April 3, Anonymous released all 15,000 usernames and passwords for the government’s web services and threatened to wipe its data.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/good-hacks-by-anonymous-2013-4?op=1#ixzz3fMlUy2Ro
The Campbell thing isn’t the real Anonymous. If the real folks find out about these poseurs, the poseurs will be hating life. You are correct that Anonymous does morally mixed work. I think they are also currently outing members of the KKK.
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More info on “Anonymous CSA”: http://restoringthehonor.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-results-of-our-investigation-into.html