New Delhi: Will Facebook be attacked tomorrow? The day is just a few hours away! A few months back a group named 'Anonymous' had announced its plans to give effect to its plans of killing Facebook on November 5, because of its much debated use of users’ personal information and selling off their data. The group is anti-Facebook as it believes that the Facebook abuses users' privacy.
In mid August, the prominent hacking group 'Anonymous', or people claiming to be part of the hacktivist group, announced operation Facebook and had posted a video, damning Facebook, on YouTube.
The YouTube video that is believed to be posted by this group speaks, "Attention citizens of the world. We are anonymous. 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. 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. Think for a while and prepare for a day that will go down in history. NOVEMBER 5 2011. We Are ANONYMOUS. We Are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect Us."
Also, here is a link to the group's 'Operation Facebook' Twitter page: https://twitter.com/#!/OP_Facebook . Here you can find recent tweets and activities made by the group.
The group is said to have an increasing presence in the mainstream media. The group has been in news for acts such as cyber-attacks on Oprah, helping controversial WikiLeaks head Julian Assange shut down a bank website and others. And this time, it announced plans to takedown the popular social networking site Facebook.
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