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Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by srl »

Anonymous posted to twitter concerning OpFacebook. The three posts that (I think) are relevant:

#OpFacebook is being organised by some Anons. This does not necessarily mean that all of #Anonymous agrees with it.

We prefer to face the real power and not to face to the same medias that we use as tools. #OpFacebook #Anonymous

REMEMBER THIS ARTICLE: "Are Hacker Attacks Government Operation To Push Internet Censorship Laws?"

The last one doesn't specifically mention FB, but it does seem that that sort of event - where the MSM attributes X to anon when anon isn't behind X - is beginning to worry them.

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by jeffool »

felipemnoa wrote: post #53
srl wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Tell them you will attack on Friday but instead attack on Wednesday?

No way, you tell them you're attacking on Thursday night/Friday morning at midnight. Then do a headfake, a completely impotent showing, but keep at it for at least three hours. Then let it fall apart as users drift off.

Then, around eight am, when the US gets to work, and anyone at Facebook who took you seriously is sleeping in after the late night? Then. That's when you pull out the big guns.

I wonder which hour of the day is their busiest... That would be my true target time.

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by cookiecaper »

atomicdog wrote: post #81
natesm wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't "Anonymous" anyone who claims to be it?

Within reason. It's anyone within the Anonymous subculture that claims to be it.

There is no way to tell if someone is credibly "within the Anonymous subculture" and "Anonymous" "releases" conflicting "press releases" with some regularity. There is no organization to "Anonymous", it's just an MSM-manufactured boogeyman to represent any teenager and/or groups of teenagers which knows how to send a lot of requests to a website simultaneously. samstave is also correct that those in power relish this since it gives them a lot of latitude to scare the commoners and get better tracing tools in place.

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by rpearl »

davedx wrote: post #79
rpearl wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they just haven't even done anything novel. Why should we expect them to now? Facebook is very unlikely to have the usual slough of easy sql injections. I am quite sure that someone good could find attacks against facebook. I am dubious that anonymous can.

Easily said, but do you know what 'attack surface' means in infosec? Facebook's is vast.

I am aware of what "attack surface" means and stand by my claim that anonymous, having done nothing novel so far, will not find attacks against facebook.

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

#96

Post by yid »

anymoonus wrote: post #76
yid wrote: post #67

Hi anonymous, I work at facebook. If you manage to hack us and grab our data, perhaps you'd like to apply for a job? It's not trivial getting the data even with full access, so you could really help our team! Plus the free lunches are pretty good.

If you work at Facebook, mind posting your FB profile?

Haha, yes I do mind. :)

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by AzAngel »

gasull wrote: post #64
brianleb wrote: post #35

I really don't buy this as a... 'full force,' if you will, attack by Anonymous. I would want to see this confirmed by sources like https://twitter.com/#!/anonymousirc before I believed it to really be an 'Anonymous' 'movement.' Of course, their strength is also their weakness. Without any names, what is and is not 'Anonymous' can forever be questioned. Like others, I want to say "they are too smart for this," but the…

AnonOps said it's a fake: https://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/101152229087657984

Except for a later tweet saying some are involved but not all:

"#OpFacebook is being organised by some Anons. This does not necessarily mean that all of #Anonymous agrees with it."

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by gasull »

AzAngel wrote: post #97
gasull wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AnonOps said it's a fake: https://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/101152229087657984

Except for a later tweet saying some are involved but not all: "#OpFacebook is being organised by some Anons. This does not necessarily mean that all of #Anonymous agrees with it."

Link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/101194056008351744

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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Post by joeguilmette »

joeguilmette wrote: post #44
brianleb wrote: post #35

I really don't buy this as a... 'full force,' if you will, attack by Anonymous. I would want to see this confirmed by sources like https://twitter.com/#!/anonymousirc before I believed it to really be an 'Anonymous' 'movement.' Of course, their strength is also their weakness. Without any names, what is and is not 'Anonymous' can forever be questioned. Like others, I want to say "they are too smart for this," but the…

If you you're Anonymous, you're Anonymous

posting while driving failure...

meant to say - if you're posting as Anonymous, you're Anonymous.

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