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Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by srl »

potatolicious wrote: post #9

Hahahahahaha. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. [breathe in] Haha. Hah. Hahahahaha. Best of luck, Anon! I'm not sure if Anon fully understands the level of infrastructure and the level of preparation Facebook has... They'll need to come up with something a lot more compelling than a bunch of guys at home with LOIC.

This attack is scheduled to come soon after anon switches from LOIC to a "new cannon" dubbed #RefRef (http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-hacking-tools-by-ano...). They're probably way overconfident in their abilities (#RefRef's description is thoroughly unconvincing), but at least they don't think they're going to DDoS one of the best-prepared sites in the world, AFTER telling them exactly what day the attack will occur on.

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by gasull »

The Village Voice has more information than CNet:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/anonymous...

tl;dr: The action is motivated because of the poor privacy policy of Facebook.

As said in other comments, it isn't clear if this is Anonymous because their twitter accounts didn't echo the manifesto. It could be a spinoff, a false flag op, or anything in between.

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by gasull »

Ideka wrote: post #20
palish wrote: post #12

Am I the only one who thinks this sounds completely out of character for LulzSec / Anonymous? They aren't stupid. They surely know that waging war against Facebook would be silly. I'd bet this is someone completely different, looking to pose as Anonymous. Try looking at the sources --- you won't be able to trace it back to an announcement by Anonymous. So who are these guys?

No, you aren't. In fact if I'm not mistaken, this notice was first released yesterday, in spanish. I'm not 100% sure though.

Can you link the original one in Spanish?

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by inconditus »

palish wrote: post #16
potatolicious wrote: post #9

Hahahahahaha. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. [breathe in] Haha. Hah. Hahahahaha. Best of luck, Anon! I'm not sure if Anon fully understands the level of infrastructure and the level of preparation Facebook has... They'll need to come up with something a lot more compelling than a bunch of guys at home with LOIC.

Like I said, this is not Anon. Think about it. Anon aren't stupid. And going up against Facebook is stupid.

There is no better example of the No True Scotsman Fallacy.

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by gary4gar »

gasull wrote: post #17
gary4gar wrote: post #11

Facebook is too big & has resources to fight off any kind of DDOS attack. I think, Annon's plan won't work. Those kids are going to get disappointed

So did VISA and MasterCard ...

You're Wrong! Because

1) Facebook is powered by massive infrastructure which can be only be compared to likes of Google. Visa, Mastercard are too small even to be compared.

2) People at Facebook are Smart - as Facebook hired top talent. those "hackers@Facebook" know their sh!t & together they are better prepared that any of us here for thwarting ddos attacks.

so my message to annon is: Kids, Please don't understand facebook's infrastructure & the smart people who work there.

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by Ideka »

gasull wrote: post #24
Ideka wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, you aren't. In fact if I'm not mistaken, this notice was first released yesterday, in spanish. I'm not 100% sure though.

Can you link the original one in Spanish?

Not sure if it is the first one but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp-V47iFoDo It's seems it's even older than I thought.

EDIT: Rough translation:

----

Greetings, world. We are anonymous.

In this short time lapse, we've heard and saw the panic of Facebook progrmmers. It seems that now they are offering US$ 500 to find errors on their webpage. It is clear that nothing of this is real. They only do this to make the world believe that they have the power, and nothing can be done against them. As we have said before, we are tired of Facebook stealing people's information and selling it to powerful people like pieces of paper. This regime has come to an end.

Facebook will cease to exist.

In November 5th the Facebook Operation will take place succesfully, and nothing will be able to stop it.

We are anonymous, we are legion. We don't forget, we don't forgive. Expect us.

----

Now that I listen to it carefully, the way they put it sounds pretty weird, to say the least.

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by srl »

sage_joch wrote: post #27

What would be really awkward is if they released logs of profile/picture views. I'd be willing to bet I'm far less of a stalker than most FB users, but I'd still be pretty uncomfortable with that data out in the open.

Highly unlikely, except perhaps in Jake Davis's wet dreams.

Remember that an actual hack requires a both a great deal of skill and great deal of luck, especially when reasonably secure installations (FB obviously qualifying as "reasonably secure") are the target. If this group had the skill required, they would know enough not to be counting on getting lucky. Thus, either they already have knowledge of some vulnerability, or they're not going to find one. The former is highly unlikely - if they had that knowledge, it would require a great deal of stupidity to count on FB not discovering it for nearly three months.

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