SiegedSec, a collective of self-proclaimed “gay furry hackers,” has claimed credit for breaching online databases of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that spearheaded the rightwing Project 2025 playbook. On Wednesday, as part of string of hacks aimed at organizations that oppose trans rights, SiegedSec released a cache of Heritage Foundation material.
In a post to Telegram announcing the hack, SiegedSec called Project 2025 “an authoritarian Christian nationalist plan to reform the United States government.” The attack was part of the group’s #OpTransRights campaign, which recently targeted rightwing media outlet Real America’s Voice, the Hillsong megachurch, and a Minnesota pastor.
In his foreword to the Project 2025 manifesto, the Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin Roberts, rails against “the toxic normalization of transgenderism” and “the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology.” The playbook’s other contributors call on “the next conservative administration” to roll back certain policies, including allowing trans people to serve in the military.
“We’re strongly against Project 2025 and everything the Heritage Foundation stands for,” one of SiegedSec’s leaders, who goes by the handle vio, told The Intercept.
These fuckers are finding out how many queer people are very good with computers.
Fursuits cost money, working with computers (typically) pays well; it’s a tale as old as… the internet?
Yes, but only because before the Internet they weren’t called furries. (I don’t know if there was a different name. I don’t even know if it was A Thing.)
Protoyiff has been added to the lexicon. Thank yooooo verymuch.
How dare you post this without the sauce.
Suetonius, Twelve Caesars, Nero, Chapter 29 Suetonius loved him a good scandal, bit of a gossip.
Man Nero is such an icon
Oh.
Not in its current form, no.
There definitely were furries, but we didn’t form a cohesive subculture until we started getting online in the late 80’s.
There’s a reason “furries run the internet” is only kinda a joke
Furries do the back-end stuff, Femboys do anything client-facing.
Furries have stuff coming from their back ends (tail), femboys stuff their back ends (they are tail)
Guess I have to start wearing skirts.
guess you do.