ANONYMOUS has vowed to "kill" Facebook on November 5, in a video posted to YouTube attracting hundreds of thousands of views.
The video calls on hackers and activists to attack the social networking giant because of its poor privacy standards.
"Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your 'privacy' settings, and deleting your account is impossible," it says.
"Facebook knows more about you than your family."
The video also alleges Facebook has given government agencies and information security firms access to user data so they can "spy on people".
"Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed," it says.
"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."
The video was posted on July 16, but appears to have only been widely noticed this week. It had more than 500,000 views this morning.
While not necessarily a single entity, Anonymous links hackers across the word with the goal of committing acts of civil disobedience on the internet.
Most recently, the "AntiSec" hacking group, linked to Anonymous, claimed to have "defaced and destroyed" the websites of scores of US police agencies in retaliation for the arrests of cyber attack suspects.
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.html or
http://itgrunts.com/2010/10/07/facebook-steals-numbers-and-data-from-your-iph....
http://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
UPDATE: 12/08/2011
UPDATE: 12/08/2011
The Anonymous #opFacebook was genuine, but was not created to encourage a 5th November attack
Yesterday the talk was around whether a new video from the Anonymous group, where it pledged to kill Facebook, was genuine or not.
According to a blog by Gawker, the threat was genuine but was effectively inactive. It pointed to an Anonymous statement by ‘Speakeasy' where the beginnings of ‘opFacebook' were detailed as having ‘began several months ago and had between ten and 20 members'.
According to the statement, opFacebook initially had one goal ‘to bring attention to the fact that Facebook stored the data of user accounts' which morphed into a second goal ‘to develop an ethical, anonymous Facebook alternative'.
The statement, said: “Development began on the site (albeit slowly) and all was well for a few days. Then came news of anonplus, an Anonymous social network, similar to the one that was being developed at opFacebook. The site in development by opFacebook was slowing to a halt and so I decided to offer the source to the team at anonplus. This came as a relief as I was growing tired of the project.
“I expected them to accept my offer of free source code and a mostly functioning site that would have reduced the embarrassment they subjected themselves to with the epic fail of announcing a site before they started coding. Unfortunately however, the ‘leader' (I lol'd) was a bit of a bitch and I was subjected to a number of attempted doxes and then kickbanned.”
Speakeasy continued by claiming that the opFacebook channel was never removed and it was decided by others that a mass deletion of Facebook accounts would occur on November the 5th, which spiralled into the rumours of an attack on Facebook.
The Gawker article claimed that the current panic ‘springs from some overeager hacktivists and media stumbling over the remnants of that abandoned operation and spinning it into a dastardly plot to destroy Facebook'.
Speakeasy said he did not know who created the opFacebook video and told Gawker he was surprised as to how the failed protest had spiralled out of control. “An attack on Facebook would be ridiculous. Even if it succeeded, Facebook has a lot of users and we want to help people, not hurt them,” he said.
As for the ‘official' line of the support for opFacebook, the Anonops Twitter said that opFacebook was ‘being organised by some Anons' but ‘this does not necessarily mean that all of Anonymous agrees with it'.
Another tweet from a different account at Anonyops said that ‘an Anonymous board meeting was held' and it had ‘decided to renounce opFacebook'.
So will there be any action on November 5th against Facebook as the video called for? It is possible that a small number will remain charged enough to create an attack against the social networking giant, but as Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman told SC Magazine yesterday, the video was likely a call to arms and without enough horsepower, any attack will likely fail.
According to a blog by Gawker, the threat was genuine but was effectively inactive. It pointed to an Anonymous statement by ‘Speakeasy' where the beginnings of ‘opFacebook' were detailed as having ‘began several months ago and had between ten and 20 members'.
The statement, said: “Development began on the site (albeit slowly) and all was well for a few days. Then came news of anonplus, an Anonymous social network, similar to the one that was being developed at opFacebook. The site in development by opFacebook was slowing to a halt and so I decided to offer the source to the team at anonplus. This came as a relief as I was growing tired of the project.
“I expected them to accept my offer of free source code and a mostly functioning site that would have reduced the embarrassment they subjected themselves to with the epic fail of announcing a site before they started coding. Unfortunately however, the ‘leader' (I lol'd) was a bit of a bitch and I was subjected to a number of attempted doxes and then kickbanned.”
Speakeasy continued by claiming that the opFacebook channel was never removed and it was decided by others that a mass deletion of Facebook accounts would occur on November the 5th, which spiralled into the rumours of an attack on Facebook.
The Gawker article claimed that the current panic ‘springs from some overeager hacktivists and media stumbling over the remnants of that abandoned operation and spinning it into a dastardly plot to destroy Facebook'.
Speakeasy said he did not know who created the opFacebook video and told Gawker he was surprised as to how the failed protest had spiralled out of control. “An attack on Facebook would be ridiculous. Even if it succeeded, Facebook has a lot of users and we want to help people, not hurt them,” he said.
As for the ‘official' line of the support for opFacebook, the Anonops Twitter said that opFacebook was ‘being organised by some Anons' but ‘this does not necessarily mean that all of Anonymous agrees with it'.
Another tweet from a different account at Anonyops said that ‘an Anonymous board meeting was held' and it had ‘decided to renounce opFacebook'.
So will there be any action on November 5th against Facebook as the video called for? It is possible that a small number will remain charged enough to create an attack against the social networking giant, but as Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman told SC Magazine yesterday, the video was likely a call to arms and without enough horsepower, any attack will likely fail.
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