Well, I’m sure that if the Idaho National Laboratory caves to these hackers’ demands and invents a particle beam cannon that transforms its target into a catgirl it’s likely that the technology will be possible to generalize into catboys, foxgirls, and other similar animal-people. Heck, perhaps they can dial it all the way up to deer. I’ll need to come up with a more specific username if that happens. So even if these hackers aren’t NCD themselves they’re probably natural allies.