All posts tagged "Hackers"

Denver residents were surprised — and some delighted — this week after hackers took over crosswalks with a vulgar anti-Trump message.

The robotic voice was heard over the weekend at a series of new crosswalks, which apparently had a password that was easy to figure out, according to CBS Colorado. The passwords have apparently since been changed.

When locals tapped the push button, they heard “The walk signal is on, f---Trump," HuffPost reported. The robotic voice also had a message accusing Trump of causing the deaths of children, which was a likely comment on the strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people. Most of them were children. ...

Mike Howell, the executive director of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project and a contributor to the rightwing Project 2025, is threatening to ensure that hackers who broke into the group's blog site get raped in prison for releasing information about the organizations' funders and contractors.

Hacktivist group SiegedSec apparently engaged in a conversation with Howell over Telegram, which it published online. In the discussion, Howell asked the hackers what they wanted, The New Republic reported.

“Mike Howell reached out to us, at first, to ask questions to understand our motives and why we breached his organization,” SiegedSec said in a July 11 post, Cyber Daily reported. “Then, he proceeded to throw insults, threats, and claimed our existence was against nature.” ...

When I was 19, I walked in on my first "love" sleeping with someone else. As he was mid-thrust in breaking up our relationship, I was blindsided and horrified by the whole experience. Looking back today I’m not quite sure how I calmly walked away and never looked back.