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Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook
DarkOx sends this snippet from BusinessInsider:
"Anonymous has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th (which should ring a bell). Citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting a Facebook account, Anonymous hopes to 'kill Facebook,' the 'medium of communication [we] all so dearly adore.' They continued, 'It is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It is a battle for choice and informed consent. ... Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is completely false. It gives users the illusion of and hides the details away from them "for their own good" while they then make millions off of you. When a service is "free," it really means they're making money off of you and your information.'"
if not at least deface it!
are belong to us?
*yawn* oh anonymous, you are _so_ 2008
Cant say i really think thats a great plan, but hey, I don't like facebook.
How long did it take the Anonymouse script-kiddies to figure this out?
"When a service is "free," it really means they're making money off of you and your information.'"" Hello - that's been the model of free services for as long as services have been free. You guys need to get a refund for that pot you're smoking and go detox somewhere. People consider it an amicable trade. A few are inconvenienced - boo hoo. Grow a pair and move on.
No American has any idea why the 5th of November is significant unless they read comic books. At least that's the truth for me.
What a glorious day it would be if they were successful. Knock out TV for a while too and we might end up having to talk to each other. EEK!
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
It would be interesting... seeing all those pasty people crawl from their
subterranean domiciles and surrender themselves to the sun, squinting
as their virtual world, disappears.
Maybe my roommate could pick up a tan.
-AI
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion
Facebook has more server capacity and bandwidth than most small countries. It's going to take more than a DDOS from a few thousand script kiddies to take them down.
Well... at least everyone is looking out for my interests.
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What a bunch of self-absorbed attention whores.
"Destroy Facebook servers. People make real friends while rioting in the streets."
Somebody took the demotivational meme a bit too seriously.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/daa/
I hope they succeed.
Anonymous may have a technical point about Facebook's motives & mechanisms, but they've missed the point. Facebook has become something of a default mechanism for people to stay in touch and communicate, and for some people to store photos etc. To do anything to take down Facebook would be hurting many millions of blameless people. It's all very well to say that people could just go and find an alternative like Google+, but in the end it's not up to anonymous to decide unilaterally that Facebook=Bad. If they want people off Facebook "for their own good", they should mount a public information campaign and let people decide for themselves. Militancy in this case is simply the wrong, most hurtful approach.
"Anonymous" is full of shit.
Gone!
I'm sure some stupid kids can ping Facebook until it dies. Yep, that sounds likely. That is how the internet works.
FTFA: He looks like a fish. What are the odds that they're intentionally trying to make him look dumb in an article about Anon's intent to dismantle his cash cow?
I'll borrrow you as an example but incomplete post.
Facebook like it or not achieved serious traction well beyond MySpace.
So to destroy them takes a SERIOUS campaign, well beyond what a 1 shot Anonymous can do,
Google+ is promising, but not the whole answer. Neither is a MS service or an Apple service.
We need one more player with BUCKS to Show them how it's done and shut these guys up.
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The full title was intended to say, "Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook. Nothing of value to be lost."
...I have to admit they are right (in this case).
Not that being right gives them the right to destroy.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
maybe all of them have 4chan Gold Accounts
Sooo... moved from self-appointed guardians of the masses to self-appointed rulers of the internet eh? In that case..I declare myself Ruler of Australia! No, wait, Ruler of the World! One day you'll thank me for it!
I bet anonymous is Google......they copy and take your money for fakes and now going after others and threatening them! Sounds like Google to me!
So, because tens of millions of people love facebook, facebook is therefore exploiting them. No, in actuality, facebook is providing – for free – a service to people who willingly sign up for it. Those bastards. It is, however, the right and duty of the omniscient anonymous to tell everyone what is good for them, because clearly they know better than the tens of millions of happy facebook users what is actually good for them. Why is it that “well intentioned” liberals always know what is best for everyone else, and then try and force their solutions down their throat? Maybe anonymous can make up a virtual Great Society for us all to die in. “Oh, Brave New World!”
Millions of willing facebook users will hate you and all your future causes. And may become advocates for whatever excesses law enforcement may wish upon you.
The world is crumbling around our feet. the Middle East is lighting on fire. England is Rioting. American Congress caused the value of the dollar to fall through the floor and our major enemy is Facebook?
This is our world now. We exist without nationality, without religious bias. We have the right to not be surveilled, not be stalked, and not be used for profit. We have the right to not live as slaves.
We are anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us
Good heavens, what a lot of drivel. They could, I suppose, just not join Facebook, but instead of taking some personal responsibility they'd rather wave their egos around. Wonderful. Whoever wrote this little piece of poetry may not be some angst-ridden prepubescent teenager, but they sure write like one.
unless they know something that we don't there is no way this is going to work or end in anything but embarrassment for the anons trying to do this.
Maybe they should pick a date when someone was successful at their mission unlike your friend Guido.
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No, it did not ring my bell
I mostly understand, and I'm midline.
It's Cardinal Richelieu all over again and his 6 lines to smear anyone.
Everyone has some 1.6% pages they want to keep private, so the end of the world would be 2012 with all browising histories of anyone anywhere starting with the 4000 men and women in power across the globe + 10,000 close cronies.
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Authoritarian governments by definition rule people because they think the people cannot self-rule. As in, authoritarian governments think they are "saving" their people. With that in mind, balance this quote from Anonymouse: "Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria." ...with this one a few sentences down:
"One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the internet, we are not harming you but saving you."
Sound familiar? Anonymouse are doing what those they claim to fight against are doing. Just another dictatorship that claims to be "rulers of the internet" that defends its "dictatorship" with petty DDoS attacks and makes outlandish and extremist claims that are on par with the "We will destroy America" claims we hear from the dits in the Mid-East. In the end, Anonymouse are nothing but wannabe digital terrorists and nothing they have done or will do matters. Their activities are as much a waste of time results-wise as the Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda and all the years of ridiculous and resultsless claims, proclamations and violence had accomplished nothing, while one humble fella with a can of gasoline and a match set the dominoes falling, toppling governments in one simple act of self-immolation. And, interestingly, as much as they brag about being anonymous, a bunch of them are being rounded up by the Feds. So much for anarchistic intelligence.
Personally I'd be very worried if I were him. Groups like Lulz Sec have shown they have people among them who are highly capable and are able to create substantial economic losses for their targets. Anonymous has had less success notable their failure to take down Amazon, and the Credit Card processing companies. Still the threat is credible and Facebook being a one trick pony (they have no business out side their website) could be really hurt by an attack.
Me thinks Anon better come up with something a little more clever than a DDOS though or they are going to be the ones getting schooled.
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Anonymous has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th, and even if they succeed, nothing of value will be lost.
-- there. fixed it for you.
Though I'm against vigilante justice, I certainly agree with their motives.
HOWEVER.... Am I the only one who thinks Anon won't have much success? The worst they could probably do hack some user accounts. If they think DDOS'ing a site with the infrastructure to handle hundreds of millions of users is going to work with a bot net made up of a few hundred thousand machines, then they're probably in for a surprise. Heck didn't they already try and fail with Amazon?
Or was that Lulzsec? I get those two confused all the time.
If they say that deleting a Facebook account is difficult, how do they expect to delete 500,000,000 accounts?
They can destroy Facebook any time now.
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Apathy. Disinterest. Things you cannot create, or force. That is what angers Anonymous. They are no different from despots, except they have no power.
Where is the 'Like' button when you need it...
Who wants to bet that this will only make it harder for USA based hosts to provide anonymous posting? It's bad enough that everywhere you go the sites have had that growth cycle requiring a pseu-donymous logins. After all, it's the only way to cope with the internet evolution: trolls, spammers, webmaster power-trip, advertiser greed and facebook/google-style data-mining. I'd say that anonymity was already DEAD-enough, judging from the inability to leave "guest" comments in any sites that you haven't signed up for (so that at least an e-mail address has to be legit).
Now, we already heard of the FBI chasing anons in new york recently. For their next trick, they will watch that date closely and see who they catch. In a few months of this and the Wikileaks baggage of 2010/11, we'll start seeing legislation to tackle the problem in a slightly more forceful way, here in the USA. Since the USA is usually the lead in most "bad" practices, it will eventually trickle down to your local nation, just like "encrypted" Blackberry snooping did on various nations.
The end result shall be that all anon posters get flagged just as bad as with file sharing. I'm starting to feel aversion to even lurking in anon sites.
Using private citizens compromised computers to do so... What a bunch of sanctimonious clowns. Hacking systems displaying peoples private information on the Internet without their OK yet complain about the privacy practices of facebook... At least data posted on facebook people MADE THE CHOICE to do so. Those victimized by Anonymous and Lulzsec didn't have the choice.
How to destroy Facebook: Wait by the river long enough, and the body of your enemy will come floating by.
I think this may be a little bit more accurate...
"It gives users the illusion of and hides the details away from them "for their own good" while they then make millions off of [the collective users as a whole]. When a service is [offered] "free," [which costs money to provide] it really means they're making money off of [its voluntary users] and [the] information [they provide, voluntarily, in exchange for this free service.]'"
Destroy it? I doubt that. But if they bring it to its knees for just a few hours. Well, hell, that'll bring a smile to my face.
And then I'll change my password. Again.
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
I can live without Facebook for a little while. Might help.
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie/Ken Thompson, 1972
While their rant on Facebook certainly has some valid points to it, and it is indeed hard to delete such an account. One should look at Facebooks business model before the ddosing starts: They sell ads. You have agreed to the craziness that is the missing privacy, the undeleteable accounts and the lack of choice.
IANAL but I think the agreement isn't breaking any laws, and since every user agrees about it they really should stop the bitching.
Is it me or do Anonymous sound more and more like a support group for men that are pissed off? Here are my two tips for Anomymous:
1) Don't be cunts.
2) Get laid.
And yet the rest of the world knows why the 4th of July is significant.
it's just impossible. They MAY be able to take it offline for a while. Destroy it??? Not a chance. Unless, of course, Facebook is dumb enough not to make backups of everything they have and store them in a secure location. And that's probably not very likely. These are some pretty amateur hackers to even CLAIM they could do such a thing.
fags,
it's not about what social or economic impact it will have, or which of you natural given rights will be compromised. It's a show of power! Git ir done!
Are they planning to make a better, open service where people can remain anonymous and only give the information they choose to give? Compete with Facebook and deliver this new, better product on November 5th? Or are they going to DDoS and just annoy some soccer moms who can't harvest their Farmville corn for a couple hours?
Seriously, Farcebook??
I'm all for seeing FB disintegrated via beam shooting from my index finger, but why bother? It's already heading into the sunset.
Maybe they think they will just give it one good swift kick in the ass before the door does its job on FB's way out. Probably that.
-SS "Teach the ignorant, care for the dumb, and punish the stupid."
If you are waiting for a white knight to build your idea of a perfect social networking and give it to you, you'll be waiting a while. If it takes more bucks than Apple has, your kids' kids will be dead before it arrives.
Anon said they were going to destroy Scientology. They are still around. Facebook will be too.
In short, nothing will come of this but a bunch of talk.
LMAAO at the headline.
This is just some new video game for Xstation DCLXVI, right? The new Genesis?
This place is fucked. Best wishes.
-ab
"When a service is "free," it really means they're making money off of you and your information." So Google should be next in line! Let us know beforehand so we can stop using that part of Google, unless they want to take ALL of Google out ...
Please don't do this Anonymous. If you take Facebook down for even just one day, once people find out who's responsible, any remaining respect or sympathy the average non-geek person has with Anonymous will disappear down the drain.
Not to mention the fact that you have no right to lecture me about choice and then take it away from me. I don't use Facebook that much anymore, but I still have an account for the occasional linkups. I'm trading the limited info I provide on it for the benefits it provides me, and I'm conscious of that trade, hence I keep things civil and use appropriate privacy settings. Now fuck of Anon and stop playing games.
never heard of him
eventually. its like the lust for power you allude to. then the geeks will turn against anonymous,, and uhm....
the anonymous people will probably go work for governments etc
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Doesn't Anonymous owe much of their recruiting and information distribution to Facebook? Are they pissed they didn't have to pay for that?
I'm no Facebook fanboi, but as a musician, sound engineer, producer, and last but not least AdBlockPlus user, Facebook doesn't owe me a penny. As long as people don't take the time to figure out how to secure their online profiles (of all types), punishing those who legally exploit them won't fix anything. People won't stop stealing cars as long as they're left unlocked with the keys in the ignition either.
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I hope they don't go after porn, it would be fun to watch them hassle Fox News. Their youtube announcement had a touch of Videodrome in it.
> They certainly don't have my most intimate thoughts, ...
I would be cautious about making such claims. I think you would be surprised at how much of your intimate thoughts "leaks out" via your everyday actions, and how your thoughts can be reconstructed given a complete enough description of your everyday behaviour. A simple example is the study in which researchers, with a fair degree of accuracy, predicted peoples movements based on the past movement of their mobile phone.
I think you would be surprised how much small things, like word choice in your social networking updates, indicate about your "intimate" thoughts.
Even worse is when third parties fill in the missing parts with conjecture and supposition, and people assign intimate thoughts to you whether you have them or not. For example, you are happily married, but your buying habits, social network updates, and movements add up to provide circumstantial evidence that you are having an affair. As far as the Internet is concerned you are an adulterer, and the reputation grows behind your back from there, until one day it gets confused with reality.
They can destroy Google+ any time now.
If I were Facebook, I'd have a complete backup of the site made on Nov 4. Prepare for the worst, and be ready to return from it.
"the 'medium of communication [we] all so dearly adore"
Speak for yourself, you insensitive clod!
The so called free services are not so free.All of them are just as sick as the other. .. it will take quite a change in user behavior.Because that's what happens.They are using your data. .. last month .. anyways Good night
They make money off of our data , the little it cost them to host any data versus the money they make is fantastic.
It will be interresting how soon they will have to fork out real dough to the users to use their data.
But for that
They also are opening it to law enforcement and of course to the intelligence services.
Unless you don't care about privacy , do what i did . unplug.
Facebook is so like so yesterday , sorry
I am sure Mark is pissing his pants ...
Their servers will be praised once they survive a DDOS attack from a total of 1,000 people.
Wait a week and their mantra of "move fast and break things" will take them down again anyway. The piss poor engineering practices in that company are a liability to themselves and anyone who monetizes off of them. The reason Facebook has such a large infrastructure? They ignore resource utilization in their infrastructure and compensate with vast amounts of hardware. If they wait for Facebook to take down their app servers and then focus on the border network, they could likely keep them down for a while. Facebook pukes out multiple releases a day and many of them are bad. Anon will have ample opportunity.
I'll sit back, with some popcorn, and root for the %s guys... I can't figure out who are the bad guys and who are the good guys in this case. Regardless, I'm rooting for Anon on this one.
The anarchist inside me just wet himself a little bit at the idea of them launching a sophisticated attack bringing Facebook down..Back in reality but they will launch some crappy DDOS attack which will now fail that they have given some warning which some people will then get arrested for. Is it just me these little hypocritical script kiddies are starting to piss off?
Anonymous are the hacking equivalent of racoons. They rifle around looking for unlocked doors and windows they can easily get into, steal a few scraps, crap all over the place, and then publicize it. Okay, they're like racoons with publicity.
The night Marty took the DeLorean out for a test drive...
Facebook will be connecting about 1 billion people worldwide by the end of this year. This is an unprecedented level "connectedness" for the world. It is allowing ideas to be shared unlike any other medium. Revolutions have happened because of it. Granted, the corporation behind all this happens to be a active participant of capitalism, consumed by greed and the necessity of growth. Worst of all, it is a CORPORATION. But to say one corporation is worse than an other is just silly. And to say that they try to make money off the information you provide them... is just silly and obvious.
O, the troubled, misguided youth. They don't know what they want, they don't know who to fight. Maybe these kids should check their Facebook and Twitter feeds more often to see what people really care about, and what's really worth fighting.
when you go after something like facebook, all your rants of "we are doing this for good." goes out the window.
Immaturity at its finest. We don't like it so you shouldn't either.
Anonymous thinks the majority of people really give a shit about their own privacy. People want to be advertised the point isn't to protect one's own privacy the focus now is to broadcast one's self to the world. We have reality shows that take us into the private lives of ordinary if not often ridiculous people. Why should reality reality be any different. People want to be advertised. They want to post every sordid detail of what they do, where they go and who they do for the world to see. The self is the celebrity.
That would be absolutely brilliant if Anonymous' plan is to release their own anonymous social network that date. I'm serious. It would show they actually had intelligence.
Step 1: Go to /b/ and post rambling about destroying the media darling Facebook
Step 2: Write an article about your anonymous posting.
Step 3: Profit.
And with this.... Anonymous jumps the shark.
Ah, Mister Anonymous Fonzarelli...
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for everyone I know to actually start using Google+. Most people just signed up and let the account sit there doing nothing. Everyone's waiting for everyone else to move off of facebook.
I've already doomed facebook. I signed up a few days ago. If it's anything like myspace, and I'm hoping it is, then I am the harbinger of doom. Soon, facebook will be no more, and google+ will rule all. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
If they can disrupt service for a few days, I know more than a few narcissists that will jump over to G+ to spout their drivel and never turn back.
Maybe Google wants to take a shot at their competition and have installed LOIC on their server farms.
I think Anonymous needs to realize their attention grab is not wanted by the majority of intelligent people on the net. Yippee s$*^ you can run a script. Maybe some of you can actually hack. Who the hell died and left you the police of the world? Who designated you the deciders of what's right and what's wrong? If you want to put out an idiotic press release, at least be honest. Say something like "We are doing this to keep our names in the news and because it gives us a feeling of power to run a script that a real programmer wrote.", but don't put out some BS story that you are "protesting against the man". Grow up little boys and girls. I think I hear your mommies calling.
It is pretty clear what this is really about. Facebook is the natural enemy of Anonymity. You can not use Facebook and remain anonymous. You can not even have a friend use Facebook and remain anonymous. Anonymous finally realized who their natural enemy was and that they would be assimilated eventually if things remained as they are. Facebook is the Borg of computer identity. Personally I fear Anonymous Coward, while the Anonymous Coward group never does anything, they can be amazingly snippy.
These are the same guys who brought down Sony over its business practices, but the end result was Sony being inconvienienced into upgrading their servers and millions of gamers not being able to congregate online to play together - in otherwords, the consumer was penalised with an even stricter EULA that could result in criminal proceeding if broken.
Thank you Anonymous.
These gus are now going after a social network because they are concerned about the privacy of its users. Bullshit. Anonymous took username, passwords, and $DEITY knows what else as part of their campaign against Sony, can we really trust their motives are pure and benign?
What would be the end result of this new campaign? FB is brough down, users who use the service to maintain contact with friends and family world wide will be forced to use less centralised methods requiring more personal details to be shared across different and unconnected sites with differing views on privacy and content ownership.
How could one be anonymously social? Seems like anyone who craves that can just use IRC over Tor.
Too much engineering testosterone and not enough PR estrogen. Very bad.
Seriously - as annoyed with facebook as we all are the fallacy that it's "difficult" to delete facebook needs to stop.
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
We need one more player with BUCKS to Show them how it's done and shut these guys up.
Bucks usually means investors, and investors means doing the safe thing. We need one hundred more players with very little money, and one hundred odd new ideas about how we can interact.
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I hope they succeed!
So you're going to try to take away my choice to use Facebook?
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Meanwhile, innocent people are being slaughtered in Syria, the US government is paralyzed by gross incompetence, and the MPAA/RIAA continue to abuse the legal systems in order to line their pockets.
But, hey, great. Mildly inconvenience a company that provides a valuable service to people all over the world. I'm sure that'll make them feel sorry.
Wouldn't it be great if Anonymous actually did something that mattered? As far as I can tell they have not had any lasting impact on anything.
So I shared this story on Facebook!
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Anonymous = Google
I don't think the summary needs [we] added. Anonymous don't adore Facebook. "The medium of communication all so clearly adore" is grammatically correct and refers to everyone else loving Facebook and not Anonymous.
Stay off the porn sites dude and you won't have problems like that.
Facebook's really behind this as a ploy for attention. They want everyone to log in on 11/5 or 11/6 to see if it's still there. With so many users who created accounts but have stopped using them, this will allow Facebook to record a lot of usage, before they file for an IPO.
Solution? Just ignore Facebook and it's pathetic plea for attention. I've been off of FB for a year now. The one exception during that time was to respond to someone who'd lost my email. Before that, FB sent me emails asking me to come back. After I logged in, I got "welcome back" emails from FB. Whatever kiddos. I have better things to do than play Farmville, look at a bunch of crappy photos by friends, and see who's reading or watching what. (Hell, I use Slashdot more than FB, and I need to cut that out, too.)
Movie? Comic book? What are you talking about? How does that have anything to do with Anonymous celebrating the of birthday of Art Garfunkel ?
Thanks guys at least I'll have till nov 5 to backup all my stuff... Oh wait.. it's Facebook !
Remember remember the 5th of November, the gun powder treason and plot. I see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
So Facebook are actually the good guys and on the 5th Anonymous are going to be all rounded up and hung, drawn and quartered?
...by posting this on the official Anonymous FaceBook page.
It's like a bunch of 3 year olds that dont get their way. Will be so glad when the Governmental agencies of the world get as fed up as I am and round these idiots up. They think they are "untraceable" which is a condition that no longer exists on line. Proxies don't have nearly the effect of hiding identity as they once did.
Bunch of useless script kiddies that wouldn't last a week in the real world.
Don't forget Facebook only know what information you put in your profile or on your wall. If Anonymous wants something to be mad about, they should get mad about people lacking a concept of confidentiality.
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The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
Imagine if 10,000 sets of identical twins file lawsuits for $100 million in separate courts, claiming that Zuckerberg stole their idea. That would be well in excess of even Facebook's valuation.
I'm not repeating myself
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This so isn't happening. Just think about it. Sure they might find an exploit that maybe knocks off a weak server somewhere in their load balancing system, but if you actually look at the URL's facebook uses when generating a page, you'd notice they have something rivaling Amazon or Google when it comes to "cloudiness"
Unless Anonymous really is several million users, they aren't even going to register a blip on facebook's radar. They'd have better luck through the front door.
It is my choice to give Facebook informed consent to use my data and not up to them to make that decision for me
How could one be anonymously social?
Shouldn't you ask that at /soc/?
Thanks for caring so much Anonymous. But I don't think we need a "Digital Taliban" telling us where we can and can't surf.
...thus stripping the "freedom fighter" veneer off of Anonymous, and making the average person (and facebooker) hate them.
Lets say anonymous creates a google+ account for everyone who has a facebook page, imports all their pictures, friends, etc and PMs them the password.
Or heck, if they just sent every facebook user a google+ invite...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Outcome n+1: A small but dedicated Anonymous raiding squad wearing Guy Fawkes masks is tunneling under Facebook's data center as we speak and planting dozens of barrels of ANFO. Come the 5th of November, Facebook is quite literally destroyed.
Overall: l33t++. Probability: It will definitely happen in my dreams tonight.
Facebook will patch it's application and gateway servers the day before to prevent any known exploits. "Anonymous" will sit around on November 5 waiting in vain for someone to find a new 'sploit and update whatever the hacker version of metasploit or backtrack is or attempt a DDOS against a site designed to handle millions of concurrent users and fail. Either way I don't see anything happening.
The day Casimir III the Great, king of Poland died in 1370 a.d.. Now that rings a bell!
Can they wipe out Google on their way?... please?
Anonymous denied that.
Just wanted to comment the look, logo, and the spokesperson who speaks to the media for Anonymous seems to have been seen seriously inspired by the Japanese anime/movie "20th Century Boys" http://asianmediawiki.com/20th_Century_Boys_1:_Beginning_of_the_End
Finally we know who Anonymous really is... Google.
He's not a hero. Every year on bonfire night he's re-burnt at the stake as a celebration that he was caught.
As for Catholics (of which I am technically one) I guess he's an anti-establishment martyr. Treating him as such just a reaction to the yearly burning - reclaiming and redefining an icon.
I wish them all the luck in the world!
good luck !
"They continued, 'It is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It is a battle for choice and informed consent. ... Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is completely false."
No. Like everything else, you have a choice - a choice of how much information supply, or whether you use it at all.
OK, there is a bit of an [historical] issue with people uploading information before knowing the reality, and being able to remove it.
But basically, this is just a bunch of dicks looking for some vague justification for acting like dicks because they don't genuinely believe in anything, they just like being dicks.
It's a fucking FREE service which means that it's supported by advertising.
It's a social media site which means by definition it's out there for people to share information.
If we didn't want to be there sharing, then we'd go somewhere else. That's it. It's freedom of choice. We choose to be there taking advantage of what facebook provides.
Do we go to a different site that has more privacy that's already there? Fuck no. Facebook is where we want to be. Idiots.
These are a bunch of immature idiots with who think they're more important than they are. So they'll inconvenience all the rest of us.
They should all go to jail. Bunch of fucking assholes. They provide no value in the world.
Look, if you don't like something, don't do it. Or go build something better. Why fuck with everyone. It's not your right.
This left me with the impression of Barney Fife being deployed to the wrong part of Mayberry when the unsmiling Yankees in suits roll into town. Thank God for Opie.
When a service is "free," it really means they're making money off of you and your information.
That is the nature of most free services... it's also the nature of most successful and innovative services. If this was so wrong then useful things like advanced search engines would never have come about.
Services that are free to use have the advantage of being highly accessible, and if they are useful or fun then it can also make them popular, that popularity generates revenue one way or another and allows that service to be developed innovated and flourish into something even more useful or fun for it's end users.
People have started regarding their privacy with these free services too highly - or at least they have been persuaded that it matters for what it is currently being exploited for. All Facebook, Google or any other company use your freely submitted information for is generate better advertising, they really couldn't care less otherwise. This may come to a shock to some people but You aren't that interesting.
I remember a while ago it was revealed how facebook created a "loophole" that allowed them to use private information for 3rd party advertising... by not allowing the 3rd party to ever see the private information. Well what the hell is wrong with that ! oooh nooo i'm looking at an advert in the margin of my spacebook account and it knows that i like to eat cheatos, SpOoKy..... -_- who gives a fuck seriously.
Seriously, all of this frustration and anger over the lack of a true delete button when it comes to a Facebook account. That's pretty much what this boils down to, and I'm not really sure what to think, because there's no guarantee that sites that DO have a delete capability are actually eradicating your data off their systems...or more to the point of once something is put online, is it every really truly gone? Somehow, with monsters like Google out there indexing the entire online universe, I seriously doubt it, and yet, Anonymous is all up in arms over it.
Don't give me a delete button, or give me a delete button and then I find out later that my content was never really truly deleted. Ever wonder which one pisses you off more?
Either way, the answer is simple. Much like every other online service, if you don't like their policies, don't use it. Plain and simple. Anonymous is being rather ridiculous about it, they should learn to choose their battles a bit more wisely.
Always Guy Fawkes with these guys, isn't it? The can stab at the beast, but they won't kill it. Maybe a couple of lulzy "Pool's closed" moments and then they'll get tired and go elsewhere.
How come this story wasn't submitted by an "Anonymous reader" ?
I don't care if facebook is taken down. Yes I use it, but any part of my life doesn't depend on it. In case it would have been taken down, I would move to the Next Big Thing or just forget it. But I would really, really like to see a high-profile target taken down. Just for the sheer fun of it. Just to see it can be done by script kiddies. I imagine an event of this scale would really rise awareness about security on the web. Keep building sand castles...
As far as the method is concerned I suspect that the only method to do it, would be to publish some incriminating evidence involving facebook, spinning up a media scandal, but probably not prosecution (how do you call it - 'fruit of the poisonous tree'?).
And yet the rest of the world knows why the 4th of July is significant.
Yeah.
Our country = Win.
This brought a smile to my face. Two groups that are bad for society -- one a dictatorship, the other an ignorant mob -- expending their energy on each other.
I feel like the neutral dwarf army at the end of The Last Battle, standing by while the armies of Lord Tirian and Shift the Ape beating the crap out of each other. (Not to get too nerdy with my allusions....)
The only downside would be if the battle increased the visibility of either group. I just hope the media ignore them while they scratch and pull hair on their playground.
Tom Geller
Hey Geohot, how does it feel to be working for Facebook now?
the internet is largely anonymous, I came to slashdot.org and you don know me you don know me... the only way this could change is with a unified login where if I wasn't logged into facebook then I would see less and less of slashdot. Finally in facebook's dear fantasies, I would be able to see very little of the web without having first logged into facebook. I guess more than the anarchists destroying facebook, which is preposterous, what they fear at facebook would be a government competitor. Personally I don't think facebook is good enough to do better than google or even microsoft at this job. Just my opinion but it's not only technical but also about trust, and I wouldn't trust that smarmy liar zuckerberg with $5 much less the keys to my vast underground digital lair.
That's the kind of thing that might be more difficult to say someday in the future. You know, instead of flying cars.
About time someone takes out that privacy breaching website!
I just hope that they do enough damage to take it down for good not just temporarily!
Remember, remember the fifth of November
facebook, DDOS and plot
I see no reason why Anonymous treason
Should ever be forgot
Doesn't have the same ring.
Destroy Facebook. ...... Profit!
Due to AIDS.
(actually breaking Zynga games will be both spectacular and somewhat effective)
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
I hope they aren't planning a DDoS...
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Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...
They have two points, both of which you seem to have missed.
Firstly that it is impossible to effectively delete your Facebook account.
And second that people are not properly informed about the consequences of creating an account- i.e. that Facebook will make money by selling their personal information. This makes it impossible for them to make a proper decision about whether or not to use it.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
I absolutely abhor FB, I have a fake account I check once a month or so, just because I have a couple of friends in other parts of the country/world. But they all just post drivel, so I'm not missing much. At first I thought it would be great if FB was actually destroyed.
But do you know how many moms, dads, and people my age (in my 40s) rely on FB for spewing their constant, horrendous banality? If FB is destroyed, they might start talking to me about this crap again.
Anonymous, please - PLEASE - let FB continue, it's just a Darwinian tar pit.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Their entire letter reads as though it was taken right out of an episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. I couldn't help but laugh. I'm shocked they aren't using The Laughing Man logo as well.
I don't care that facebook sells my "private" information.
I don't care if facebook gets destroyed.
I am curious to see what it means to destroy facebook though. are they going to delete every possible restore point and all of the source code? are they going to make it so i never said my coworker's puppy was cute? are they going to destroy my relationships with all my friends? make it so my niece was never born and there are no baby pictures of her? is it going to be impossible to ever host anything under the domain facebook.com again?
or is it just going to be slow for a day?
This is why I have no respect for these groups.
Hmm, what target should we focus our might on to make the world a better place? Big Oil? The Republican Party? No, I know, FACEBOOK!!! THOSE EVIL ASSHOLES ARE SERVING TARGETED ADS!
Nothing here, move along.
...Google+?
You can still be anonymously social. See ArcadeForums, CNCZone, SparkFun, etc. Not everyone is using his real name, yet they share common interests and projects.
"while they then make millions off of you"
Good luck with that one. I've been trying to make millions off me for years.
Who's anonymous?
Seriously, how about saying "a mostly disorganized group of random strangers on the net"? It doesn't roll off the tongue, but at least it doesn't give you the impression we're talking about some secret underground group that's out for anarchy.
I am not devoid of humor.
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