Furries keep the Internet running. Anger them at your peril.
Heritage Foundation insists it was not hacked by “gay furries”
Submitted 4 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Can confirm, my co-worker is a furry and they keep the Internet running.
communism@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
My “I haven’t been hacked by gay furries” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my T-shirt
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
whats ur opinion on vore
Makhno@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It makes me hungry 🫤
SecretSauces@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I myself am an omni, but I don’t judge others if they like prefer something different.
Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Have you hugged your gay furry today?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Accepting hugs 24/7
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
🫂
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If I wear a Velcro suit while hugging you would wacky sitcom level shenanigans occur?
Hule@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wait, you can own a furry?
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
No, but I bet head scritches and treats will endear them to you
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes you can but you are legally obligated to say “who rescued who?” At least once a day to a person.
LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I love it when real news report headlines sound like an article from The Onion.
Corigan@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I don’t… It’s fucking depressing
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Satire done right is close enough to reality to make you pause for a second and wonder, “Is this for real?”
Stands to reason that it works the other way too.
tdawg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think in this case it’s a good thing tho (normally I’m with you)
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why? The Heritage Foundation are an intellectual joke. They can’t win in the war of ideas, they can’t suggest ideas that will last any test of time, and now are actively working to make their whim law crushing democracy itself. So if they are a joke why not mock them?
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand
Mark Twain
And in this event is the seeds to beat the bastards. They want us to be scared they want us to take them seriously. Some group of script kiddies made them say gay furries. To actually go out there and talk about gay furries. Serious men in serious suits saying gay furries.
Keep it up. Make them talk about sex toys, pointless fandom debates, body fluids, anything that brings them down to the level of mockery
isaaclyman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“I’m not owned! I’m not owned!” I continue to insist as I slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Pistcow@lemm.ee 4 months ago
As much of the IT sector makes up that group I’m surprised more breaches like this haven’t happened.
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Just because you haven’t heard of them, doesn’t mean they don’t happen more often than you think
knightly@pawb.social 4 months ago
Oh, it’s true. Even without any unlawful computer access, the amount of personal info your average IT furry can access is pretty astounding. There’s furries quietly keeping things running in the background across tech, finance, industry, science, and just about everywhere.
Our Bacon numbers are tiny, too. It might be six degrees for any two random humans, but in the furry community you rarely have to go farther than friend-of-a-firend-of-a-friend.
So; if you’ve got a problem, if nobody else can help, and if you can find them, maybe they’ll know another furry with the exact know-how you need.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 months ago
From what I’ve heard, sometimes the hacked institutions bow in the form of delaying, or even completely ditching Project 2025-style plans. Other times the institution has enough Russia and/or China ties, that a naive tankie within the group sabotages the whole effort. Yet other times they’re being paid a lot of money and being given certain guarantees (ability of leaving the country in case the hacker’s civil identities become illegal, etc.).
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There is a secret war being fought in the digital depths of cyberspace…
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The information obtained was limited to usernames, names, email addresses, and incomplete password information of both Heritage and non-Heritage content contributors, as well as article comments and the IP address of the commenter. No Heritage systems were breached at any time, and all Heritage databases and websites remain secure, including Project 2025. The data at issue has been taken down, and additional security steps have since been taken as a precaution.
So you’re saying that there was no breach at heritage because… you gave away your users data?
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yeah, what a cop out.
We weren’t hacked, guys! It was just our data specifically that was hacked from the contractors we pay to protect it! That’s totally different and better, right?
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
They have no comment on if they were hacked by pansexual furries.
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I want everything SiegedSec found. I intend to copy it and store it for safekeeping.
prole@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Do it
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Well, maybe not exactly “hacked”, is that what they mean?
dumblederp@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Penetration!
androogee@midwest.social 4 months ago
Less of a trojan, more of a knot
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
“Fellas is it gay to get penetrated by furrys?”
Wait, wait No not like that!!
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Do you think there’s a real link between furries being gay, like the type of person who is a furry just tends to be disproportionately gay and online?
Or a sociological link like people who are open enough about sexual preferences will tend to be open about all of them?
Or a news bias link like plenty of hackers are gay but you don’t hear about it, but if they are
Or is this always just the one gay furry hacker group?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think it’s about lines of social taboo. Coming out as gay means you’ve already done something socially difficult, and it means you’re closer to social fringes. It’s what I’ve always suspected for why queer people, polyamorous people, and people into bdsm wind up overlapping more than expected.
Laurentide@pawb.social 4 months ago
It’s because the furry fandom, when it was founded back in the late 70’s by a gay polycule of sci-fi fans, was one of the only communities in existence that accepted openly gay and trans people. (And the only non-fetish community.) For many queer people, the furry fandom is the first place they ever feel welcome.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Basically the two weird kids in school decided to hangout together? I don’t mean that in a bad way, I mean in a cute way.
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There seems to be a link between neurodivergence and LGBTQ+ tendencies, from purely anecdotal evidence. Perhaps it’s because neurodivergent people seem to be more willing to question the status quo and self-examine without the assumption that they must be however society deems “normal?”
nik9000@programming.dev 4 months ago
I think all those are a little true. But I’m mostly guessing. I’m happy to change my mind if anyone knows better.
Either way, these folks are my hero.
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 4 months ago
lmao yes most furries are gay. it’s a queer subculture. it’s like asking hmmm are most leather daddies gay?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Eh, the only furries I know personally are a straight couple. So I’m not sure what that does to your metrics.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Do you think there’s a real link between furries being gay, like the type of person who is a furry just tends to be disproportionately gay and online?
there’s a disposition between gay people and being furries, not between being furry, and being gay.
It’s a little weird, but it’s just a technicality of the furry community being the way that it is. It’s the same reason the US government is 90% people above the age of 60 right now. It’s just demographic shenanigans.
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Go on Barbara, keep telling us not to look at Internet pictures of your house.
irreticent@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ll have to admit, I looked at the cliffside pictures during the hype. I fell for the Streisand Effect in its original form.
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
She looked very terrible in those pictures
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
i just want to know what picture they sent to the guy on signal…
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 4 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A group of self-proclaimed “gay furry hackers” says it breached the Heritage Foundation earlier this month, releasing two gigabytes of the right-wing think tank’s internal data on Tuesday.
The group also cited their objections to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s policy proposal for a second term for former President Donald Trump, as a motivating factor.
The chat logs show a person who claims to be Howell asking a SiegedSec member why the group hacked the Heritage Foundation and threatening to expose the hackers.
In a statement on Telegram, SiegedSec said the goal of the hack was to draw attention to — and combat — the Heritage Foundation’s anti-LGBT and anti-abortion policy proposals.
Broadly speaking, its recommendations involve expanding presidential power, purging federal agencies of career employees, and replacing them with Trump loyalists.
Trump recently attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming he has “no idea” who is behind the plan — even though a CNN analysis found that more than 140 former members of his administration were involved in drafting the mandate.
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Freefall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
These really should get their own pinned-to-top auto-collapsed space.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 months ago
It wasn’t gay gurries, it was a group of straight scalies!
profdc9@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Baghdad Bob could not be reached for comment in his bomb shelter.
mPony@lemmy.world 4 months ago
#they haven’t been WHAT by gay furries??
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cue the Dril tweet.
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 months ago
And if they were, they files went to them, they weren't the recievers and thats for sure!
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sounds to me like they still haven’t rectified the breach. Cool. 🤘