Anonymous: Planning to Shut Down Facebook on November 5th

[gogatrs]

Funny that just today someone said to make sure you turn secure browsing on. This on Facebook BTW.
Apparently the default is off.

I'd like to see the chaos that occurs when Facebook goes back live when such an event occurs.

 

[ghostrider135]

If this "so called" plan of theirs does come to fruition atleast it will give the owners of facebook time to be ready and catch the hackers in the act and finally get them sent to prison.

 

[McLaren]

I find this a bit strange, because iirc, when you sign up to Facebook, you actually turn over some of your "rights" to them. I think things like pictures uploaded to their site become ones free for them to use for their own gain, regardless of your copyright. If that is correct, I wouldn't be surprised any info you release on Facebook becomes information they can turn over to anyone if they have to.

Again, not positive, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Terms were similar to terms of agreement Apple has (& that South Park made fun of).

 

[prisonermonkeys]

The problem with Facebook's privacy policy is that their default settings make all information available - and when they change or update the privacy system, everybody's profile is automatically reset to said default. Which in itself isn't really a problem, because new software and coding is intorduced in place of the old. But Facebook doesn't tell their users a) when they update the privacy system, and b) how to adjust their settings when they do get updated. And some of the individual settings (particularly the controversial ones, like letting facebook advertisers use your image) are buried deep within the privacy settings and can be difficult to find if you don't know where to look. Last time they did it, the backlash was so great that they changed the system again, making it easier to find certain settings.

👍 They have their work cut out for them, Sony didn't know it was coming and it was only a temporary annoyance (server-wise, the public issue was a little beyond minor), but Facebook is likely harder to shut down due to the sheer size of it and they have notice. I don't expect problems.

And the whole thing just seems inefficient. They claim they have evidence that Facebook is allowing governments access to all private information. If that's the case, why not release that evidence? That will do far more damage than taking the servers off-line.

 

[W3H5]

Chinese government beat them to it in this country!

 

[Anna+Reece]

November 5th is my birthday, that would be the worst gift ever if it was shut down

 

[Luminis]

Oh god, I don't care why they do it, but shutting down Facebook would be hilarious
I just want to see all the chicks at work when it happens. I have a feeling they can't even breath withour their smartphones and constant Facebook usage.

I want to see how they react to that so badly! They've had heart attacks and went into berserker rage when the internet cut out for a few minutes. I can only imagine what'll happen if Facebook isn't available for a day or two. Wonder if they'll go completely mad due to FB withdrawel... Most hardcore World of Warcraft are better at digesting a server outage than the chicks I know are at living without Facebook

 

[Crumpet]

Why am I excited?

 

[Daniel]

To be honest, it'll be pretty awesome if everyone ends up moving to G+ because of this. So many people at my school are completely crazy about FB

 

[Luminis]

I'm wondering if such a FB outage would cause riots and such. It's become such a big part of some people's lifes it's scary.

 

[Luminis]

And you'd be jailed for being dumbbbbbbbbb.

Bit offensive, ain't we?

 

[Rico_S]

Well, after migrating some of my friends from Facebook to a forum, I'll be holding a party at 5th November, presuming that Anonymous will be successful.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Whats next Guantanamo?

Guantanamo Bay is used to imprison foreign combatants. Since shutting down Facebook would not be considered a terrorist attack, anyone arrested for it could not be transferred to Gitmo.

 

[niky]

With the level of cyber-attacks Anon and Lulzsec have perpetrated recently, I wouldn't be surprised if they are declared terrorist organizations.

AnonOps has disavowed any link to the message, so the point is probably moot.

And yes... publicly declaring your intention to join a group charged with criminal activity in public is probably not a very advisable choice...

 

[prisonermonkeys]

AnonOps has disavowed any link to the message, so the point is probably moot.

It's easy to use Microsoft SAM to produce a message like the one that was released.

 

[Famine]

Since shutting down Facebook would not be considered a terrorist attack

In the UK it would - hacking, or the threat of hacking, is an offence under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.


That aside, hasn't G+ shut down Facebook yet? [/Satire]

 

[Neal]

That aside, hasn't G+ shut down Facebook yet? [/Satire]

 

[homeforsummer]

 

[Stevisiov]

I want to remove my facebook to be honest, I have little to no interest in it anymore, and never really have particularly cared for it.

 

[terminator363]

I almost never use facebook, and it get's me frustrated seeing my friends glued to it, ignoring me. Honestly I don't care at all if facebook shut down the only thing it would do is get my friends out of the house (doing more interesting things while their at it aswell).

 

[Grayfox]

I want facebook to shutdown, my bandwidth is wasted and i am lagged out of my games due to it.

 

[Owen.C93]

Most of anonymous is just downloading a program where you type in an IP address and press go. And you don't exactly join, you just turn up. There are IRC rooms and threads on chans you can use.

At the end of the day Anonymous don't really want to take down facebook, it's just for gathering attention so when they actually do something useful people take notice.

 

[Pupik]

Just a friendly reminder that wishing to conspire to hack or disrupt the business of any website is potential grounds for termination from GTPlanet...some of you have had your posts deleted for that reason.

• You will not use these forums to violate any laws nor to discuss illegal activities.

In short, don't be an idiot...just because I don't like my neighbor doesn't mean it's okay to break into his car.

 

[Jondot]

Amusingly, what they've effectively caused by saying this is potential issues on the 5th of November anyway, simply caused by people logging on and frantically pressing refresh to see if it's gone down yet. ...which it might well do, since everyone will be on at the same time pressing refresh. I say 'everyone', what I mean is people without lives or children. Such as myself.

Just a theory, of course.

 

[gogatrs]

Amusingly, what they've effectively caused by saying this is potential issues on the 5th of November anyway, simply caused by people logging on and frantically pressing refresh to see if it's gone down yet. ...which it might well do, since everyone will be on at the same time pressing refresh. I say 'everyone', what I mean is people without lives or children. Such as myself.

Just a theory, of course.

Then why don't we do that now.
*hits refresh*

 

[Borna12345]

I would love to see that. 101/100 people at where I work use it.

 

[Crispy]

I almost never use facebook, and it get's me frustrated seeing my friends glued to it, ignoring me. Honestly I don't care at all if facebook shut down the only thing it would do is get my friends out of the house (doing more interesting things while their at it aswell).

I haven't hung out with a couple of my friends because of it. "Hey, wanna go hang out at the 7/11 and Braums?" "Nah man, we can chat on Facebook."

I want facebook to shutdown, my bandwidth is wasted and i am lagged out of my games due to it.

Haha, I can't ever Forge in Halo with a couple of friends because everything just moves an inch when I use coordinates.

 

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[GTShadowKing]

Would love it to happen just to see my sister's face (shut it for a week pls)

 

[AudiPro]

I don't think they have the huevos to do it they're aware of the repercussions for hacking PSN but they have no clue what the Zuckerberg army will do.