Route Fifty: ARLINGTON, Va. — When an Oklahoma state legislator proposed legislation making it illegal to hide one’s face with a hoodie in 2015, hacktivists took notice and responded.
Oklahoma’s state government received threats via YouTube and hackers acquired botnets, pointed them at the state’s public-facing IT infrastructure and bombarded it with traffic.
The goal: To focus citizens’ attention on the hackers’ political views, and since then they’ve brought the similar types of disruptions on county and city governments protesting incidents of police-involved violence.
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