Hacktivist group Anonymous, which has been responsible for cyber-attacks on the Pentagon, News Corp, and others, has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th (Which should ring a bell).
Citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting a Facebook account, Anonymous hopes to "kill Facebook," the "medium of communication [we] all so dearly adore."
This isn't the first time Anonymous has spoken out against social networks.
After Google removed Anonymous' Gmail and Google+ accounts, Anonymous pledged to create its own social network, called AnonPlus.
The YouTube video is spine chilling and can be viewed here:
The full text of the announcement as reported by theVillage Voice, is below:
Operation Facebook
DATE: November 5, 2011.
TARGET: https://facebook.com
Press:
Twitter : https://twitter.com/OP_Facebook
http://piratepad.net/YCPcpwrl09
Irc.Anonops.Li #OpFaceBook
Message:
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.htmlhttp://itgrunts.com/2010/10/07/facebook-steals-numbers-and-data-from-your-iph....
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
COMMENTARY: The folks of AllFacebook.com said about the Anonymous threat:
"We’re curious about exactly how hackers might execute an attack on the site, and even more intrigued about what Facebook might do to pre-empt such an effort, if possible.
We also can’t help wondering why Anonymous would pre-announce an attack three months ahead of time, giving Facebook plenty of time to prepare for an onslaught. (What if this announcement turned out to be a hoax?)
Anonymous has previously attacked some big targets such as the U.S. Pentagon, along with Visa and Amazon — although we don’t recall any of these targets getting three months advance notice."
So far, no comments from Zuck or Facebook spokespeople about the Anonymous threat.
If you've been following my post, I believe that Facebook is a front for the U.S. government a.k.a. "Big Brother" and its henchmen the NSA, CIA and FBI, whose only purpose is to watch over and spy on us.
Here's my response to Anonymous:
"Please Anonymous, the Gods of Darkness and digital troublemaking. Please shutdown Facebook and put Zuck and his hacksters out of business for good. Fry those servers and corrupt the harddisks while you are at it. It will serve as notice to all social networks throughout the world that are allied with the governments of the world and their evil masters, the Illuminati. I await the disaster that is to be bestowed on Facebook on November 5, 2011. #bringit, #fastball, #winning. It's on my calendar now. When I wake up and "try" to login to my Facebook account I look forward to a message that says, "Our Fucking Site Is Down, Shit, Anonymous Hit Us - Sorry For Any Inconvenience, Zuck."
BTW, In a blog post dated July 31, 2011, I profiled Social Intelligence Corporation, a very creepy company that uses special software to find everything you ever posted online, including social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. If you have applied for a job with a big corporation, there's a pretty good chance that they are working with Social Intelligence Corporation, to find out what you post online. Social Intelligence finds all posts you made online, and if they believe they are derogatory (racist remarks, extreme religious or political comments, expletives, and so forth) and this includes photos and videos of questionable taste. Social Intelligence then prepares a Social Media Consumer Report listing all your derogatory online posts and furnishes this information to a prospective employer, who can then use this information to screen you out and keep from hiring "undesireables". I hope Anonymous will take note and shutdown Social Intelligence Corporation.
If you feel as I do about your online privacy especially incidences of privacy violations by social networks, especially Facebook, and wish to DELETE your account below are the links for deleting your Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts:
- DELETE FACEBOOK ACCOUNT (Zuck doesn't make it easy to delete your account. There a DEACTIVATE feature in your ACCOUNT SETTINGS, but that does NOT delete your account. Zuck "buried" the DELETE feature deep in side of Facebook Help)
- DELETE TWITTER ACCOUNT (Twitter makes deleting your account easier, by providing a DEACTIVATE MY ACCOUNT feature bottom left side.
- DELETE GOOGLE+ ACCOUNT (Google allows you to delete not only your Google+ account, but ALL your Google accounts like Gmail, Doc, Latitude, etc.)
However, be forewarned that your data is still locked away by Zuck to be exploited and shared with the governments of the world.
Courtesy of an article dated August 9, 2011 appearing on Business Insider
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