INTELLIGENCE
Briefs
E XTRE MISM IN T HE U .S .
[ H AC K ATTACKS ]
ANONYMOUS
Anonymous’ Planned Outing of Klan Members Falls Flat
Operation KKK did not go as
planned. Instead, the plan by the
hacker collective Anonymous to
reveal the identities of up to 1,000
members of the Ku Klux Klan was
marred by incomplete information
and the premature posting of data
by an overeager copycat who got
almost all of his or her facts wrong.
In late October, Anonymous,
a “hacktivist” group known for
tangling with the Church of
Scientology, the gay-bashing
Westboro Baptist Church and
even the Islamic State, declared
that it had collected a trove of
identifying information about
KKK members that it would soon
be posting online.
A few days later, on Nov. 1, a list
of names appeared on Pastebin,
a text-sharing site — including
four U.S. senators and five bigcity mayors. But many names
on the list (including, it seems
clear, those of the maligned politicians) did not belong to KKK
members. A Twitt W"66