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Far-right Project 2025 chief makes ominous promise to hackers
Story by Sarah K. Burris • 19h
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/far-right-project-2025-chief-makes-ominous-promise-to-hackers/ar-BB1pPisT
Mike Howell, the executive director of the Heritage Foundation and the creator of the rightwing Project 2025, is threatening to ensure that hackers who broke into the group's blog site get raped in prison for releasing information about the organizations' funders and contractors.
Hacktivist group SiegedSec apparently engaged in a conversation with Howell over Telegram, which it published online. In the discussion, Howell asked the hackers what they wanted, The New Republic reported.
“Mike Howell reached out to us, at first, to ask questions to understand our motives and why we breached his organization,” SiegedSec said in a July 11 post, Cyber Daily reported. “Then, he proceeded to throw insults, threats, and claimed our existence was against nature.”
“We tried answering things in a way to hopefully help him understand. But as his insults grew, so did our impatience. So we are releasing all of our chat logs with Mike Howell.”
In it, the hackers claimed there action was to let Americans know who is behind the Heritage Foundation, which is drawing up Project 2025, a guide for a second administration crafted by allies of Donald Trump.
It includes plans for a mass takeover of the federal government, the firing of civil servants and their replacement with political loyalists.
Story by Sarah K. Burris • 19h
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/far-right-project-2025-chief-makes-ominous-promise-to-hackers/ar-BB1pPisT
Mike Howell, the executive director of the Heritage Foundation and the creator of the rightwing Project 2025, is threatening to ensure that hackers who broke into the group's blog site get raped in prison for releasing information about the organizations' funders and contractors.
Hacktivist group SiegedSec apparently engaged in a conversation with Howell over Telegram, which it published online. In the discussion, Howell asked the hackers what they wanted, The New Republic reported.
“Mike Howell reached out to us, at first, to ask questions to understand our motives and why we breached his organization,” SiegedSec said in a July 11 post, Cyber Daily reported. “Then, he proceeded to throw insults, threats, and claimed our existence was against nature.”
“We tried answering things in a way to hopefully help him understand. But as his insults grew, so did our impatience. So we are releasing all of our chat logs with Mike Howell.”
In it, the hackers claimed there action was to let Americans know who is behind the Heritage Foundation, which is drawing up Project 2025, a guide for a second administration crafted by allies of Donald Trump.
It includes plans for a mass takeover of the federal government, the firing of civil servants and their replacement with political loyalists.
