Operation Facebook

[Marc|Criti]

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/52301

‘Remember,’remember the 5th of November, goes the saying.

And if AnonOps have anything to say about it, Facebook certainly will remember it.  Because that’s the date they’ve earmarked for an attack on the social advertising giant for allegedly selling private information to the, “what are viewed as, corrupt governments of countries such as Syria and Egypt.”

AnonOps, a splinter-cell group of Anonymous, mostly comprising more die-hard Anonymous  members, are  planning the attack.  And the reasoning reasoning is, they say, simple. “There have been many instances in the past wherein, creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has enraged his user-base by making it near-impossible to have a private Facebook profile. Instead, he seemed to be aiming more towards a mass information-gatherer to be sold on to third parties for an enormous profit seeing as the users are forced to give the site this information to be a member.”

These attempts , they say, have been quashed by some very eagle-eyed users and observers of the site seeing the almost unperceivable changes in the privacy statement which one has to accept to use the site. “However, it appears as if Zuckerberg has been implicated in selling information to corrupt government agencies. The relevant statement from AnonOps reads as follows:

“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.”

This article in the Guardian explains how if one uses Facebook on an iPhone, then yours and your friends’ numbers will automatically be collected. I am unsure how that stands on a legal basis, but I know friends who have my number on their iPhones and use the Facebook application and I certainly didn’t give my consent to Facebook collecting my number or my friends giving it so freely.

The “operation” as it is called in hacktivist terms (in this case, “OpFacebook”) is, to use the words of the press release, “destroy” Facebook entirely. This may be one of their least popular moves considering the amount of people who use and love Facebook, but the release claims it to be in everyone’s best interests to maintain privacy and, of course, anonymity.

The relevance of the date, to those of us who neither live in England nor have seen the film, “V for Vendetta”, is it was the date that a man named Guy Fawkes plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament who he saw to be corrupt. The date in this case, however is more a reference to the film which was the inspiration for the group, anonymous in which “V” plans, in much the same way, to finish Fawkes’ job in a bleak, dystopian future of oppression and dictation.

We’ve all heard that prospective employers and universities may well check your Facebook before enrolling you to ensure you are a suitable candidate, but this does take things to a new level. To say that the majority of the users are unaware that their information may be sold on is an understatement. If one reads the privacy statement (which can be altered at Zuckerberg’s will without need to inform any user) one cannot find any statement which says that the information provided for Facebook may or will be sold on to a third party. To the contrary actually, it is stated that “[They will] never share your personal information with [their] advertisers.”

The methods which AnonOps intend to use have still not been made clear, however history dictates that it is likely that they will use a series of both hacking reconnaissance prior to the attack and heavy DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks to achieve their end goal.

Whether or not you use the service, if this attack is successful, you will notice a difference. A difference ranging from the economy due to stocks and share levels falling as seen in one of their most publicised and legal operations, “Operation Pay Pal”. Or from loss of revenue of businesses that advertise on Facebook, Google rankings, the list could go on. The possible knock-on effect could be catastrophic from a Capitalist view of things, but from the hacktivist perspective, this is their proving ground. This is them taking down one of the giants and, should they pull it off, I can only imagine how invincible they would feel.

It seems they get bigger and bigger each operation, gaining more momentum and followers. Their Pay Pal operation, in fact, in the first hour of its launch gained over 9,000 people claiming to them to have closed down their accounts and by the end of the first day, roughly 30,000 accounts at Pay Pal had been closed down.

With the fine and possible prison term for would-be hacktivists who participate in DDoS attacks set as high as it is, it’s a wonder how anyone can be so sure in their own internet security that they won’t be caught while finding the flaws in others’. One thing is certain though, AnonOps have set their mind to this and in one shape or form, it will happen. The success of it can only be determined on the outcome. We’ll know more on November 6th, adds Andy Laa

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[Gareth l Rare]

>phillyD

i doubt it will happen but will be fun to watch.....

Also team poison will prob expose annon and stop this as they are white Knights of the interwebs

[DeltaPapa]

tl;dr version?

[Marc|Criti]

>phillyD

i doubt it will happen but will be fun to watch.....

Also team poison will prob expose annon and stop this as they are white Knights of the interwebs

idk much about them but it seems that they only hated lulzsec

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2100557/team-poison-hacks-blackberry-riots

[gfdgfd]

tl;dr :l

[Gareth l Rare]

tl;dr :l

TLDR = Annon fret to take out facebook on nov 5th as FB have been selling info to 3rd party´s

“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.”

Although FB rules state they will never do this.... so its FB lieing to us and annon found out or are they just chatting shit and this is a troll?

find out tomorrow on OT  :shifty:

[Adam|Note]

tl;dr they're attacking facebook because they sell information to the FBI etc.

[poet]

to bad there getting thrown in jail one by one atm for life sentences.

#winning

[Gareth l Rare]

to bad there getting thrown in jail one by one atm for life sentences.

Proof?

[Guest ph0ne]

>mfw greentext isn't green

tl;dr they're attacking facebook because they sell information to the FBI etc.

^Sauce?

[gfdgfd]

>mfw greentext isn't green

tl;dr they're attacking facebook because they sell information to the FBI etc.

^Sauce?

>yfw this isn't 4chan

[Guest ph0ne]

>mfw greentext isn't green

tl;dr they're attacking facebook because they sell information to the FBI etc.

^Sauce?

>yfw this isn't 4chan

[Octavarium]

TL;DR

I don't even mind my info being leaked. oh...

[Veta]

If they release my info then more people will be blessed

[FearMy Def]

tl:dr they are hacking fb!

[Tylerrr]

tl:dr they are hacking fb! ;pp;p;p;

[Turbanator]

tl:dr they are hacking fb! ;pp;p;p;

[Ethan|Unicornz]

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This thread is now 4chan

Also this makes more sense than what I had previously heard, seeing that it's not "Anonymous" as a whole pulling this off. /b/ has been so overrun by newfags there probably isn't a decent hacker left on the site