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.
Thank god for the Furries.
This is really cool, but I would personally never call out I was part of a hack on anyone just in case they gain enough power to have me murdered. That, and the legal troubles that could follow. I can’t think of many things scarier than conservatives who cheat and don’t play by the rules coming after you legally because they will make sure you go bankrupt or worse.
Despite providing a username, it’s probably more difficult for the Heritage foundation to find them than it was for the hacker(s) to gain entry to the system. Even the announcement was encrypted via telegram.
Even the announcement was encrypted via telegram.
What? It’s a regular telegram post, not at all encrypted.
These guys also hacked the nuclear lab demanding research into cat girls btw. Fucking madlads
Amazing, what a time to be alive
Whenever I see the words “gay furry hackers” in a headline, I smile.
It’s about damn time these hacker groups started working with their fellow peasants, instead of against them.
I checked the article to see if this was the NULLBULGE folks again, but no, this was reportedly executed by SiegedSec. A different queer furry hacker group.
gay furry hacker group? sorry, this is the trans therian greyhat group. though if you’re looking for the queer scaly infosec group they’re right down the hall
I mean, there is never enough gay/furry hacking groups rooting for our rights. Keep it up!
These fuckers are finding out how many queer people are very good with computers.
There’s a reason “furries run the internet” is only kinda a joke
Furries do the back-end stuff, Femboys do anything client-facing.
Guess I have to start wearing skirts.
guess you do.
Furries have stuff coming from their back ends (tail), femboys stuff their back ends (they are tail)
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.)
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.
He so prostituted his own chastity that after defiling almost every part of his body, he at last devised a kind of game, in which, covered with the skin of some wild animal, he was let loose from a cage and attacked the private parts of men and women, who were bound to stakes, and when he had sated his mad lust, was dispatched by his freedman Doryphorus;
- The Roman Emperor Nero roleplaying and protoyiffing
How dare you post this without the sauce.
Suetonius, Twelve Caesars, Nero, Chapter 29 Suetonius loved him a good scandal, bit of a gossip.
Protoyiff has been added to the lexicon. Thank yooooo verymuch.
Man Nero is such an icon
Oh.
Get em with your tails waving furries.
🫡 Thank you for your service
If I ever find these hackers I’m going to treat them to lunch.
They were gay children then professionals and furries. These hackers have been breathing operational security their whole lives. You probably find them when some Morpheus dude in assless chaps offers you two different brands of poppers.
We all have VHS that need to be cleaned
Thank you, Gay Furries for your service.
When horrible people (furry) hurt other horrible people (Republicans).
I guess I’m rooting for the lesser of two evils again, but it’s not a victory I enthusiastic about. Anyway, suck it fascists.
What the fuck is wrong with furries?
How are furries bad? Maybe they have a weird kink and / or hobby, but hey, let them live their lives.
Wtf are on about? What have furries ever done to you?
I have no idea, but this isn’t the first time they’ve gotten irrationally upset about them:
Yeah I’m not too happy with all the kids, mostly because they largely ruined animal humanoids with their weird furry BS, and they think Critical Role is some kind of good demonstration on what a real session is like and not a well funded production.
https://lemmy.world/comment/11069488
That was a in a thread about D&D and the creator’s sexism.
Also, I haven’t met too many furries, but the ones I’ve met seemed like decent people.
'the ones I’ve met seemed like decent people."
Squid hits the nail on the head here. Furries are just being themselves, which we are always told we should be. Until some old fart gets all twisted up on hate by preach everyone should be as bitter and twisted as they are.
Hell, there are so many more pressing issues in the world to deal with. Who cares who love whom or what. Let’s focus on the bigger issues like corruption, greed, and tribalism. Who fucken cares if Fred loves Fred, or Jane wants to marry Jane.
I want to worry about how many dollars are getting stuffed into political or judicial pockets. That’s the real issue.
the Sam Bankman-Fried FTX trial kind of told it all when it came out in sworn testimony that politicians are such a value buy, and to get media all over your Democratic bribes, but best to keep the equal RNC ones dark. How could you be blind to the Supreme Court justices being bought? But look! some people are fighting on an airplane, people tweeted about tipping culture and omg somebody old trended and people thought they died but not yet!
It’s the Dead Cat strategy.
Bro you’re on Lemmy. It’s mostly furries here. How did you think this comment would go?
I’m not concerned with points or score. I cannot abide bestiality-adjacent people who have a disproportionally high number of groomers in their community. I may not be able to stop them from being an abomination, they should absolutely be on some kind of watchlist. You be an apologist if you want, I can’t stop you, but I won’t let it be sugar coated whether y’all want to admit there’s a problem or not.
I cannot abide bestiality-adjacent people who have a disproportionally high number of groomers in their community.
Citation needed. Tbh this sounds like a fascinating dataset but I’m skeptical it even exists.
Huh. I hear drag queens and trans people have a high number of groomers in their community. I used to hear it about gay men too (and sometimes still do). I wonder if that’s actually just a lie designed to demonize a marginalized community?
Oh, but I’m sure it’s true this time.
I didn’t apologize for anything or side with anything
Ironic you’re on a post like this preaching hate and misinformation. Bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see how it turns out for ya.
Any group is comprised of groomers and bestiality practitioners if you tell yourself they are and refuse to actually look into what they represent.
“beastiality-adjacent”? Furries HATE Zoos. Don’t even go there. If you cross that line you will be exiled from the Furry community. They will doxx you and they will beat your ass if you ever show up to another con. Whatever you think you know about the furry community, you are dead wrong. Zoophiles are disgusting and Furries will single them out and throw them under the bus when we find them.
Animals are friends, not mates. Furries have plenty of other Furries to fuck anyway.
Don’t assume all furries or all republicans are horrible. Then you are being just like the republicans man.
Oh, c’mon now, we are well beyond the point of giving Republicans any claim to decency. The entire party has fallen to Fascism. They’re on the same trajectory as the the Nazi party pre-holocaust, and on the same trajectory to be just as evil.
The entirety of Republicanism is centered around hatred of minority groups. They don’t even care about economics anymore, they just want to exterminate trans people and reverse civil rights.
As for flurries, they are a rather wonderful queer subculture full of compassionate creative people who love to share their love for anthropomorphism with others.
To compare the two is quite insulting. One group is a group of people who wants to have fun and be happy, the other group wants to see the first group dead.
It’s not difficult to pick a side.
I remember when it was cool to hate furries on the internet, 2003 was a trip… A trip best not repeated.
Furries are not horrible people. Weird with weird preferences sure, but FAR from horrible.
🫡 to the gay furries
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Knightly hit it on the head.
Zootopia rule 34
“the fandom” on youtube is a good documentary if you want to be explained to for 1.5 hours
Basically, everyone has a Mii/xbox avatar unique to them, like a physical username, called a persona/fursona. Some people get extremely expensive custom suits of their fursona. It’s semi like anime fans, but not tied to corps, very decentralized. It got started in the 70s and 80s with sci-fi cons where people gathered for disney-esque animal cartoons and comics, and has roots in importing anime to the US.
The furry community is somewhat like a church with various chapters, you can join furry chats in various cities and countries to quickly form a social network wherever you go. In the US, there tend to be city chats, state chats, regional chats, and national/international chats. These cover a broad range of interests from coin collecting to mountain biking and skiing, but the common thread is that everyone is a furry.
Conventions occur and are like a cross between a family reunion, blackout party, and university classes where panels are taught on things like fursuit building, drawing, car meetups, pilot meetups, doctor meetups, etc. It’s like a networking and party event on steroids.They are fun as hell and occur all over the world, ranging from a few hundred people to over 15,500 people. They have been growing dramatically since 2016. Cons usually partner with local animal charities and tend to donate tens of thousands of dollars each con.
It tends to be a very welcoming and open community, drawing a significant portion of the population that is LGBTQ. Last time I checked, this was about 2/3rds of the population.
Solid description. ✅🏆
They’re kinda like anime fans, but their self-insert characters are all animal people.
The subculture traces back to a series of room parties at scifi conventions in the 80’s, but didn’t grow into its own until the internet got more common.
Wait, this is news to me. My understanding was that it began as effectively a kink with its associated community. Like, I think I recall it being pretty much strictly sexual in every way I heard of it for a long time. And then lately I see that it’s more broad than that - the most clear example I have is when my kiddo’s friend recently named it as one of the cliched “kid archetypes” at their high school, e.g. jock/goth/furry/etc. Maybe it was just never specifically sexual or maybe it’s been through some evolutions.
I guess nerd had to be retired after every human under 50 started spending the majority of their time looking at an internet connected device.
Brother, you get a bunch of nerds into any subculture and it’ll turn sexual fast. I’m sure there were plenty of spock eared sex parties.
Brother, you get a bunch of nerds into any subculture and it’ll turn sexual fast. I’m sure there were plenty of spock eared sex parties.
It is commonly believed that slash fan fiction originated during the late 1960s, within the Star Trek: The Original Series fan fiction fandom, starting with “Kirk/Spock” stories generally authored by female fans of the series and distributed privately among friends. The name arises from the use of the slash symbol (/) in mentions in the late '70s of K/S (meaning stories where Kirk and Spock had a romantic [and often sexual] relationship)
I’m convinced there is a subsection of con/ren faire nerds that have more sex than anyone on the planet who isn’t a sex worker. They’re out there breaking stereotypes and boning down.
Queer nerds? Absolutely. It’s basically a polycule for playing board games and swapping blowjobs
Not only them, but the queer nerds are definitely at the top of that list. There’s also a lot of overlap between queer nerds and kinky nerds, but there is a surprising number of straight nerds getting it on as well. And some that start and end the weekend straight but dabble in things they wouldn’t do back home while they’re there.
And as long as they’re not hurting anyone, good for them. I support getting away for a bit of debauchery from time to time.
LOL just a devoted nerddom out here making even the Olympic Village look like a buncha prudes by comparison, and no one knows because the participants are too busy fucking to communicate with the outside world.
Nerdy conventions are well-known for bringing people together who have the same or very comoatible kinks. The more you lean into a fandom, the better your odds of getting laid. Custom cosplay is like a big “pick me” sign.
Agree with all that. In addition, there are a lot of open minded nerds. Maybe I’m not into something necessarily, but I’m willing to give it a whirl. That opens up the pool of other nerds that want to bang you.
And Ren Faires are full of an insane amount of alcohol and (after hours) drugs. So you have a bunch of sweaty nerds with lowered inhibitions camping together. Camping sex is intense (in tents).
It’s always been more broad than that, the sexual aspects are just a lot more apparent than they are in the wider culture.
Talk to the staff at a convention hotel sometime and they’ll tell you that the kinkiest group they serve are Dentists. They might look more professional at first, but they’ve got disposable income and nothing else to live for, so their room parties get wild.
That’s interesting and I hadn’t realized. It’s not surprising, I guess, we people tend to latch onto the salacious bits (see the joke about “if you build 100 bridges do they call you Johnny the bridge builder?..”). And frankly “people like to dress up as animals and LARP as them” (and apologies if that’s overly reductive to someone) just isn’t all that interesting lol, like any other hobby I don’t happen to be into.
Bit about the dentists makes perfect sense, haha. Bet the lawyers are about the same.
Def started as a 100 percent sexual thing but there’s non sexual subgroups now a days. I believe Fredrick knulson has a into the rabbit hole documentary about it. If he doesn’t, he’s still worth a watch his videos are great.
disney’s robin hood
and, disney’s robin hood
add a dash of balto to both answers too
Down The Rabbit Hole: Furries. For anyone who doesn’t know Fredrik Knudsen and may kneejerk to this before watching, this documentary has won awards at furry conventions.
(I am not a furry, but I’ll try my best to explain what I know.)
People who really like anthropomorphic animals (animals with human features).
Generally what I’ve heard from others is “If you want to be a furry, you’re a furry.”, so the following are not requirements.
Most have a “fursona”. It is an animal character that sort of represents you. Like your own personal mascot.
It may be whatever color and specie you like. Even a hybrid between species. A person can have multiple fursonas.Generally furries like to draw these characters, or even some more generic ones like for example Nick Wilde from Zootopia.
Some furry artists accept drawing commissions, i.e.: you can pay someone to draw your character.Some even have fursuits. That is an expensive suit of your fursona, so you can fully be your own private mascot. By expensive, I mean multiple thousands (yes, freedom currency). Of course, it’s made by people, and you are people. DIY is also an option, and if you get skillful enough… money. Though it doesn’t have to be a fullsuit. It could be head-only or partial (head, paws, feetpaws, tail). Also digitigrade suits are usually more expensive than plantigrade, but let’s not get too far.
Not sure if I gave any good explanation, but certainly better than that episode of CSI xD.
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Eh, its just a community of people having fun and being themselves. I also think it’s weird, but it’s harmless, so who cares? I don’t have the self esteem to be so open about something that society at large finds weird af, so honestly, good for them.
good explanation, furry-approved
Seconded.
Thirded
So it was an inside job from the closet crew of these comic book villains of our dystopian reality.
