Remember a few months ago, when Anonymous released an ominous video claiming that they were going to “kill Facebook”?
With the date fast-approaching, many people are beginning to wonder if there’s any credibility to the hacktivist group’s threat. According to Anonymous, they’re taking down Facebook because:
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.” – Anonymous
Though some people seem to be getting concerned as November 5th approaches, most people seem not to lend much credibility to this claim from Anonymous.
October 31, 2011 18:58pm
I would love for them to attack Facebook… Then they should turn there attention on the croprate greed and wipe out the consimer credit debt Fight club style but digitally
November 1, 2011 9:25am
I wonder why everyone thinks that anonymous hasn’t already hacked facebook and are just waiting until november to execute?
look up “logic bomb”
November 1, 2011 14:57pm
Anonymous are not a hacktivist group.
November 1, 2011 17:22pm
I hope its taken down forever. ihope they do.
November 1, 2011 19:55pm
The group as a whole doesn’t want to kill Facebook, but a few “members” may bring it down.
November 2, 2011 6:41am
Really, if Facebook went down, would that be all that bad?
It would be interesting to see…regardless.
There are alternatives springing up all over the place as it is–People will unite.
Cheers, friends.
November 2, 2011 10:35am
hell screw facebook! kill all the student loans
November 2, 2011 17:43pm
Only thing you have to worry about on the fifth of November is Footballgeddon. Alabama vs. LSU. Roll tide.
November 2, 2011 21:05pm
Am I the only one that sees the V for Vendetta reference?
November 3, 2011 3:23am
I think Anonymous changed their target to Foxnews.com due to the biased nature of Fox’s coverage of the “Occupy Wallstreet” movement?
November 3, 2011 4:24am
Oh man, I know atleast half a dozen peoples whose meaning in life would be lost. I don’t have facebook. I don’t think people care that I had a tuna sandwich for lunch and decided I should give the dog a bath. Fucking stupid slef absorbed bullshit. Your life is NOT interesting enough that anyone cares about the mundane details. Get over yourself.
November 4, 2011 4:26am
hell yeah! i hope they do it, if for no other reason than to make a statement to the world that dishonest practices like that will become harder and less profitable in the future. i hope facebook’s stock value and overall value plummets so that the dinosaur will die allowing newer companies to take their place.
November 5, 2011 13:39pm
I was just on Facebook. Nothing’s happened yet….and I wouldn’t expect anything to happen. If people are tired of their personal information getting shared with businesses without permission, then they’ll stop using Facebook. My girlfriend left Facebook a couple years ago, and I rarely use it, so it won’t affect us much if it goes down. I have my social group on another site anyway.
November 5, 2011 14:20pm
i’d like to see facebook brought down just so the us police state would not be wasting taxpayers money on monitoring it.
November 5, 2011 17:30pm
Nope, just chuck testa