Hackivist group Anonymous vows to “kill Facebook” on November 5, with a valid reason of weak privacy for users. While
Update: Anonymous confirmed via a tweet that while some of its members are organizing the upcoming attack against Facebook, the hacker organization as a whole does not necessarily agree with the attack.
The group of hackers has claimed participation in just about every recent notable hacking attack of this year and successfully broke into 70 law enforcement websites and took down the Syrian Ministry of Defense website this week alone.
This recent interest in Facebook, despite a huge number of privacy issues against the social network since its founding, may be a result of Anonymous’s recent announcement that it plans to create its own social network, called AnonPlus. After the group’s Google+ account, called “Your Anon News,” was banned, it began fleshing out AnonPlus.com, “a new social network where there is no fear … of censorship … of blackout … nor of holding back.”
Below is a video and statement released by Anonymous explaining the reason for its upcoming battle with the world’s largest social network. Let us know your thoughts on the group’s statement in the comments below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQTS8zqYXU
Anonymous Statement
Attention citizens of the world,
We wish to get your attention, hoping you heed the warnings as follows:
Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed. If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy.
Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria.
Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your “privacy” settings, and deleting your account is impossible, even if you “delete” your account, all your personal info stays on Facebook and can be recovered at any time. Changing the privacy settings to make your Facebook account more “private” is also a delusion. Facebook knows more about you than your family.
http://www.physorg.com/news170614271.html
http://itgrunts.com/2010/10/07/facebook-steals-numbers-and-data-from-your-iphone/
You cannot hide from the reality in which you, the people of the internet, live in. Facebook is the opposite of the Antisec cause. You are not safe from them nor from any government. 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.
The riots are underway. It is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It is a battle for choice and informed consent. It’s unfolding because people are being raped, tickled, molested, and confused into doing things where they don’t understand the consequences. 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.
Think for a while and prepare for a day that will go down in history. November 5 2011, #opfacebook . Engaged.
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
I also thought that Facebook always exceed limits on security issues. We post things on Facebook with no sense of idea that where our data is being shared. I personally feel that Google+ will finally overtake Facebook very soon. Hmmm for the news uptill now its just a news so lets see what happens on November 05 keeping the fact in mind that what happens, happens for a reason.
Hackivist group Anonymous vows to “kill Facebook” on November 5, with a valid reason of weak privacy for users. While
Update: Anonymous confirmed via a tweet that while some of its members are organizing the upcoming attack against Facebook, the hacker organization as a whole does not necessarily agree with the attack.
The group of hackers has claimed participation in just about every recent notable hacking attack of this year and successfully broke into 70 law enforcement websites and took down the Syrian Ministry of Defense website this week alone.
This recent interest in Facebook, despite a huge number of privacy issues against the social network since its founding, may be a result of Anonymous’s recent announcement that it plans to create its own social network, called AnonPlus. After the group’s Google+ account, called “Your Anon News,” was banned, it began fleshing out AnonPlus.com, “a new social network where there is no fear … of censorship … of blackout … nor of holding back.”
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I have been seeing and using social media since I can remember.
First there was Orkut in which people use to write walls and wait for others to reply. You could add pictures and your friends can see them. Start a topic and invite people to share their views for a discussion. This was the only past time back in those days. I remember creating an account and sharing my views with the world.
These are the ones who just cannot help but keep crying and whining on and about how sad/bad or unfair life and this world is to them. They are prone to updating statuses like the following everyday:
Recently you must have received sms messages or emails saying: Sign a Petition to stop the recent burning of the Quran. Or join this page or that website that is condemning this act. And let’s hold a rally to stop this. Maybe all of this made you stop and think about the recent incident that caused a commotion universally as well as in the Muslim world. This was the incident of Pastor Terry Jones announcing the desecration of the Quran in Gainsville, Florida as retaliation to the Islamic Mosque being built on the site of 9/11.
I still remember the time when there was only one TV channel in Pakistan. In those days (early 90’s) there was not much content to show on TV but at that time less content provided quality. People use to go for work and return home early to spend some time with the family. It was a set routine for almost everyone. Whole family use to watch 8’o clock drama, drama which always had some lesson in it. After that there was 9’o click news and then people use to sleep early because at that time people were more committed with their work.
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