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Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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I was yesterday at their IRC, prepared to laugh at them, but it was quite interesting. First, they try to look united on twitter and to media, but they quite aren't. Second, they are INCREDIBLY naive. Third, they are OBSESSED with attention of the media. They were actually planning the attack on #OpFacebook channel (so no, it was not fake - and the channel still exists, but they probably realized it is a joke so they…

> they thought it would be better to get people passwords by "botnet keylogger" (and I am not making it up), steal about 1 million accounts and then DEACTIVATE THEM ALL, which would I guess do something terribly evil to Facebook.

That is not a bad approach. If you assume Facebook's network infrastructure is rock solid, then attack Facebook's human infrastructure by flooding them customer services calls.

I don't think you need a botnet keylogger to grab Facebook passwords because their users are easily confused or duped. For example, ReadWriteWeb wrote about Facebook's plans for login federation and many Facebook users, googling for "facebook login", found this blog and tried to login there!

https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_y...

Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

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post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, yes I do mind. :)

Why? How do we know you're not someone who works for a competitor and is out to discredit Facebook?

You don't. I choose to stay anonymous for many reasons, but if it's any help, nothing I said could be construed as trying to discredit Facebook (even though I'm anonymous).
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