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papa_smurf
08-11-11, 04:23 AM
The hacking group, Anonymous have a new target: Facebook, saying;
We'll kill Facebook on bonfire night

So is this a empty threat, or will they attempt to bring down the biggest social media site? If they succeed, will society in the western world collapse due to Facebook users been unable to communicate with friends, "like" and other facebook stuff (not a user so have no idea what people do on facebook).
Betonov
08-11-11, 04:35 AM
Remember remember the 5th of november... sorry, couldn't resist :DL

Oh well, I won't miss it even if it is an everyday part of my life. Since in the last months it has become utter cra... excrement.
Feuer Frei!
08-11-11, 04:41 AM
Hahaha! Go Anonymous. :up:
AVGWarhawk
08-11-11, 05:55 AM
Well I guess people will just have to pick up the phone to talk to their friends. Worked in the past and still works today. Imagine that!
Jimbuna
08-11-11, 05:59 AM
Can't say I'd miss it but I know quite a few people who would.
Diopos
08-11-11, 06:00 AM
... will just have to pick up the phone to talk to their friends...

They don't have their phone numbers anymore...

:damn:

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mookiemookie
08-11-11, 06:21 AM
I would wager that Facebook is still up and running on November 6th.
Growler
08-11-11, 06:36 AM
None of the quasi-official Anon sources confirmed that the video posted was in fact from Anonymous, and at one point yesterday, I read an article that suggested that the video was no where near Anonymous' previously-released videos' standards, suggesting a simulacrum and not genuinely from Anon.

Who knows, though I doubt even Anon have the minerals to do much to Facebook.
Herr-Berbunch
08-11-11, 06:51 AM
Fifth of November - it's bloody HunterICX again:doh:

Phone numbers of your friends are available on FB, provided the user has ticked (or unticked) the correct boxes, so if you want them get them now. Facebook is just as open to this malarky as any other company but hopefully this will give them a nudge to redouble their security efforts.

I know people who knock FB and can't see the point but it is great for me to keep in touch with family in Canadialand and throughout UK, and some criminal associates Down Under (sorry, friends that have emigrated to Oz). It also helps me to keep in touch with all my old air force buddies spread globally - saves me a fortune in telephone calls or stamps. :yep:

If it did all end, it wouldn't be the end of the world, just very annoying, if the hackers want to be useful they can just get rid of FB's irritating games and their invitations. Then they'd be rejoiced by the majority of users. :D
danlisa
08-11-11, 07:58 AM
So is this a empty threat, or will they attempt to bring down the biggest social media site?

They'll easily succeed. Anon/Luzsec could bring facebook down using a simple DDoS attack from the LOIC, I suspect though that they have other 'tactics' available to them.

BTW, Anon/Luz usually only target sites/companies which they perceive have done wrong toward the general populace. What's their reasoning behind going after FB?
Herr-Berbunch
08-11-11, 08:02 AM
BTW, Anon/Luz usually only target sites/companies which they perceive have done wrong toward the general populace. What's their reasoning behind going after FB?

How about every privacy amendment FB ever makes? :doh:
AVGWarhawk
08-11-11, 08:39 AM
They don't have their phone numbers anymore...

:damn:

.


Then I'm guessing they are not the best of friends then. :03:
joea
08-11-11, 09:44 AM
How about every privacy amendment FB ever makes? :doh:
:yep: Am a FB user myself, but they need to smarten up with their non-privacy policy. :down:
NeonSamurai
08-11-11, 09:53 AM
BTW, Anon/Luz usually only target sites/companies which they perceive have done wrong toward the general populace. What's their reasoning behind going after FB?

How bout the whole insidious nature of Facebook, and how they have intentionally designed it to be as addictive as possible. I am actually surprized they haven't targeted FB yet.
Herr-Berbunch
08-11-11, 10:07 AM
How bout the whole insidious nature of Facebook, and how they have intentionally designed it to be as addictive as possible.

It would be a poor show if they'd intentionally designed it to be ignored. :doh: But I'm with you on the insidious side.
Sailor Steve
08-11-11, 01:28 PM
I like FaceBook. It's the only contact I have with my kids. That said, I only remember to log on every few days, and then see if they've posted any new pictures of their kids. The band uses it to advertise.

So, if it went away tomorrow I'd be a little bummed about my kids, but it wouldn't really mean anything.
discomjim
08-11-11, 01:31 PM
if the anarchists say 5th, bet your life it'll be the 4th or the 6th !
gimpy117
08-11-11, 04:00 PM
The hacking group, Anonymous

Anonymous isn't really a "group" it's just a pseudonym anyone who is connected with sights like 4chan, 2chan 420chan etc. uses when they want to do things like this. There isn't some central evil council or anything.
Anthony W.
08-11-11, 04:02 PM
I only use Facebook for photos and keeping up with my friends scattered across the globe.

I have lifetime memories on there. If they get rid of my photo's, I'm gonna be FREAKING P.O'D LIKE NEVER BEFORE!!!
Growler
08-11-11, 04:25 PM
I only use Facebook for photos and keeping up with my friends scattered across the globe.

I have lifetime memories on there. If they get rid of my photo's, I'm gonna be FREAKING P.O'D LIKE NEVER BEFORE!!!

Backup while you can, then.
Anthony W.
08-11-11, 04:35 PM
FOR EVERYONE:

http://www.mytechguide.org/8578/backup-complete-facebook-profile/

Yes it works, I just did it.
Sailor Steve
08-11-11, 05:28 PM
It strikes me as weird that anyone would use FaceBook as storage. I keep everything on my own hard drive. FaceBook is for posting things I want people on FaceBook to see. PhotoBucket is for storing things I want to post anywhere else, like here. If either of them died tomorrow I would lose nothing except a connection to that site. Meh.
MH
08-11-11, 05:40 PM
It strikes me as weird that anyone would use FaceBook as storage. I keep everything on my own hard drive. FaceBook is for posting things I want people on FaceBook to see. PhotoBucket is for storing things I want to post anywhere else, like here. If either of them died tomorrow I would lose nothing except a connection to that site. Meh.

Now days younger people relate to the web as The Web....its always been there and always will be.
While uploading content to some sites maybe safer than keeping it on a PC the best solution is to burn staff at some high quality media and keep it somewhere safe.
CaptainMattJ.
08-11-11, 06:20 PM
Remember Remember the Fifth of november

The facebook torching and plot.

I know of no reason

Why the facebook treason

should Ever Be Forgot!


I love that movie.

"Why wont you die!"
"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof."
Herr-Berbunch
08-11-11, 07:09 PM
FOR EVERYONE:

http://www.mytechguide.org/8578/backup-complete-facebook-profile/

Yes it works, I just did it.

Ok, that's fine, but say FB disappears off the face of the planet - can you access those photos without FB? Idk, but you may want to check before you rely on it. :hmmm:
STEED
08-12-11, 06:09 AM
Facebook is for gloater's who think there so much better than the rest of us. Look at me I got 50 thousand friends! :doh:

I would not miss Facebook.
Hottentot
08-12-11, 06:21 AM
Bleh, disliking Facebook is so yesterday. It used to be when five years ago I said I don't need it and won't register, people looked at me like I had just told them to world is flat. Now every other person I come across remembers to tell that he/she refuses to touch the Facebook, that it's the incarnation of all evil in the world and that people using Facebook are dumb sheep.

It's a freaking website!
Growler
08-12-11, 07:16 AM
It's a freaking website!

:yep: Yup.

It's a fad, a trend. No different than Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, or Furby, or any other overhyped fad or trend. It will have an initial peak, then slowly fade into general acceptance, until it's replaced by the next thing. Myspace, anyone?
Growler
08-12-11, 07:21 AM
...the best solution is to burn staff at some high quality media and keep it somewhere safe.

Also, if you have digital photos that you've taken - print them (or at least, the ones that may have historical interest to future family, for instance) - digital media does degrade, and technology does change. Anyone have at easy reach a 5 1/4" DD disk drive to read this old file of mine, for instance. Sure, have backups on digital (CD, DVD, etc) but have albums of printed pictures, too... and store them carefully. If we don't print some of these digital memories and store them, we'll lose huge swaths of history if technology marches past us without our keeping current, or if the tech just plain fails.