Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook
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Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook
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Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook
#2Looks like Nov 5th is the target date. So in ~85 days, they are going to concoct a plan to destroy a $100 billion (allegedly) company? This should be interesting.
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#3This group calls itself anonymous as well, and uses the same 'branding', but it is useful to note that the people behind this may have no affiliation with the previous anonymous operations.
The 'original anonymous press release' was Uploaded to youtube by FacebookOp on Jul 16, 2011, and picked up by media only recently.
None of the usual anonymous twitter accounts (http://twitter.com/anonymousirc http://twitter.com/youranonnews http://twitter.com/anonops http://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousPress etc) or the irc channel (irc.anonops.li) have any mention of the operation.
It is of course not impossible to create a new youtube user and a new twitter account called 'facebookop' and post a video proclaiming to attack facebook in the name of anonymous. Anyone can do it.
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#4So somehow cutting people off from playing Farmville, talking to friends and family, and generally wasting time is going to endear a small group of "hacktivists" to those users?
Perhaps as effective as cutting those users off from playing PS3 games they'd already purchased.
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#5First rule of war: Don't give notice to your enemy of when or where you're going to attack.
This is something they do to be on the news.. that's all. They're not going to be able to shut it down.
Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook
#6This group calls itself anonymous as well, and uses the same 'branding', but it is useful to note that the people behind this may have no affiliation with the previous anonymous operations. The 'original anonymous press release' was Uploaded to youtube by FacebookOp on Jul 16, 2011, and picked up by media only recently. None of the usual anonymous twitter accounts ( http://twitter.com/anonymousirc http://twitter.com/…
Hmm, maybe the feds are getting close and Anon's trying to shake them off?
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#7I'm guessing this is partially a response to a talk given at DEFCON by 2 people trying to unmask anonymous and lulzsec members. They highlighted how they use social media to track people down, especially FB.
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#8Will a DDOS attack affect a website that gets billions of pageviews per month anyways?
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#9Hahahahahaha. 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.
Re: Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook
#10First rule of war: Don't give notice to your enemy of when or where you're going to attack. This is something they do to be on the news.. that's all. They're not going to be able to shut it down.
Well, there's a few ways they'd do this, right?
(1) availability - DNS or route hijacking. With https they may not be able to fake their own copy, but redirecting to a 'AnOnYmOus ownz yoo' page may be possible.
(2) privacy - a pretty big profile dump, maybe of key facebook employees?
(3) quality - have the news feed, groups, walls, etc flooded with (even more?) crap. A few cracked apps could flood a lot of users.
Sorry, the terms I'm using are pretty bad.