From The "Transparency Files"

Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online

 Anonymous has begun releasing the personal details of members of the Ku Klux Klan, escalating its cyberwar against the white supremacist group. 

Last week the hacktivist group promised to reveal the identity of 1,000 members of the KKK after getting possession of the private information through a compromised Twitter account.

 A press release from Anonymous reads in part: 

"After closely observing so many of you for so very long, we feel confident that applying transparency to your organizational cells is the right, just, appropriate and only course of action.

 You are abhorrent. Criminal.

 You are more than extremists. 

You are more than a hate group. 

You operate much more like terrorists and you should be recognized as such. 

You are terrorists that hide your identities beneath sheets and infiltrate society on every level.

 The privacy of the Ku Klux Klan no longer exists in cyberspace. You’ve had blood on your hands for nearly 200 years.

 You continue to inflict civil rights violations, commit violent crimes and solicit others to commit violent criminal acts. 

 You seek to intimidate and/or eliminate those that are different from you and those that you dislike by any means possible. 

You seek to terrorize anyone and anything that you feel is a threat to your narrow view of the 'American way of life'."

 

Denials quickly follow 'Anonymous' list of alleged KKK members

 The mayor of Lexington, Ky., says he's not a member of the Ku Klux Klan. 

Anonymous postings saying otherwise are "false, insulting and ridiculous," Jim Gray said in a statement on Monday.

 Read all about this hate group here

 

Goose Creek, Texas, Baytown in 1921 had 10 houses of prostitution outside the refinery.

 Rumors of street fights and wild night life abounded amongst the civil minded folks in Goose Creek, less than a mile away.

 The Klan took root there and announced theirpresence on May 28, 1921 at Pelly Park and marched up Main street, to TexasAvenue.

Their numbers grew and they became bolder and bolder. 

 Minorities, Catholics, and anyone who spoke out against them soon fell silent.

 As time progressed, the Goose Creek Klan began to pass judgment on any supposed moral infraction, mainly on local whites.

 Beatings, tar and feathers, and death threats were exacted in excess of 20 separate occasions during their existence, some including women and children!   

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Security guru Bruce Schneier predicts a new trend in hacking: political doxing.
 
 He points to the recent hack of CIA director Jack Brennan's personal email account and notes that it marks a shift in the purpose of email hacking:

 "Here, the attacker had a more political motive. 

He wasn't out to intimidate Brennan; he simply wanted to embarrass him. 

 His personal papers were dumped indiscriminately, fodder for an eager press.

" Schneier continues, "As people realize what an effective attack this can be, and how an individual can use the tactic to do considerable damage to powerful people and institutions, we're going to see a lot more of it.

 ... In the end, doxing is a tactic that the powerless can effectively use against the powerful."

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Four Senators Outed As KKK 

 "The story is still developing, but Anonymous could make the worst fears of the Republican Party come true while doing a public service by exposing the racist elements at the highest levels of political power."