The hacker collective SiegedSec says it infiltrated the conservative think tank to oppose its campaign against trans rights.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    98•5 months ago

    Fursuits cost money, working with computers (typically) pays well; it’s a tale as old as… the internet?

    • @[email protected]English
      13•5 months ago

      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.)

      • @PugJesusEnglish
        35•5 months ago

        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
      • knightly the Sneptaur
        13•5 months ago

        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.