Gay Wolf Furries
No, really.
Faggot is a homophobic slur in the meat world, but in “chan culture”, where language that was meant to shock (and avoid becoming a marketable commodity), the shortened fag evolved into a suffix, with a variety of uses. There are some environments where I’d be described as an oldfag, and that is a compliment.
oldfag - someone who has been around.
newfag - someone who has not.
summerfag - waves of annoying kids every summer.
moralfag - a slur aimed at latecomer to Anonymous activists.
Eurofag - good natured name calling of our European friends.
furfag - a furry, a largely proscribed subculture.
If you ever visited Something Awful in its heyday, you’d know there were three sorts of subhumans who merely look like the rest of us - furries, Libertarians, and Scientologists.
That being said, let me share some oldfag knowledge, and my interpretation of what it means for the Heritage Foundation …
Attention Conservation Notice:
Obscure hacker humor within, enter at your own risk.
Events Past & Future:
Here’s an assclown named Mike Howell assuring the people who broke into Heritage that “consequences will never be the same”. This is shades of Penny Leavy begging LulzSec to not release the HBGary data back in 2011.
The consequences bit is from an Anonymous troll the year before involving a girl named Jessi Slaughter.
If you listen, you’ll hear her father claiming the “cyberpolice” were going to get the trolls, because he had “backtraced” them.
As a result of the HBGary intrusion, Aaron Barr hired the experts at Backtrace Security, which drew their name from this video. The group was led by career troll Jennifer Emick. They picked up where HBGary left off in its pursuit of Anonymous, producing a document called Namshub. While it was full of purported names, it’s a Sumerian word for “incantation”, and Jennifer is, or at least was, a Kemetic pagan.
If you hunt really hard you might be able to find Namshub.pdf and therein you’d find that one of the identified individuals in that spreadsheet had the following description in one cell and an explanatory note in the next.
A gay wolf furry. | No, really.
So … do you actually think that SiegedSec are a group of gay wolf furries?
I think this image might be more apropos, given the treatment Heritage has only just begun to receive.
There’s a zip file out there, it was posted to IPFS, and that means it’s NEVER coming down. The contents are the backup of a Wordpress blog with about 3,000 unique usernames. Here’s the SHA256 hash of the file I found at the other end of that link.
SHA256(QmVwiYsr4J6SNFYyDYZBTDF8yXSeitLfK7NPWDMWns5AB9.zip)= 3dcc258331d9139a654402d20b756b57ca17228aa9e2f80a4b6451b96c8eac70
I saw on Twitter that the intruders have mentioned there is another 200GB of “worthless” data. That, like them being gay wolf furries, is a troll. Once the initial furor over the blog backup leak starts to wain a bit, I strongly suspect there will be an additional release.
Conclusion:
Leak evaluation is a strange business. Like MIOS: Iran’s PressTV, the publication path is a narrow, steep set of switchbacks. Like MIOS: Russpublicans, things can get held up over a single missing piece of the puzzle. No matter how straightforward the inference, editors don’t want to hear a studied opinion, they want sources. Every once in a while, things come together swiftly, like they did in Mios Goes To Michigan.
Given that Project 2025 is literally a plot against our democracy by religious extremists, I think it’s reasonable to assume that we’ll see the rest of that Heritage data pop up online, and sooner rather than later. The #1 outlet for this sort of thing is DDoSecrets. If you’re interested in preserving our democracy, a little bit of coin for Emma & Co. goes a long way.
Now that we’ve got that cleared up, I can get back to whatever else I was doing today …