Anon attacked Facebook
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I'm only disappointed they didn't do more damage. I hate Facebook. Their questionable ethics (what little there are) and near-blatant data-mining and privacy violations have all but turned me away from them in every regard. The only reason...and I do mean the ONLY reason, I still have a page on there, a rather spartan one at that, is to keep up with some people. Even so, I'm still trying to convince them it's better to keep in touch via phone or mail instead. Facebook is like Twitter. A sad waste of great technology for a pretentious, self-absorbed generation.
FINALLY! Someone who actually gets how much of an oxymoron the term "social network" is. Vicarious interaction is NOT a way to form lasting bonds with people.The Stonker said:
Wow, they've been busy recently.
The other day they took down ACS law's website. Thats the bloke who's been trying to do people for copywrite theift from illegal downloading (Just in the UK I think). Including trying to sue my mum =/, which was really funny, cause today she told me 'That tw**'s websites been taken down by somebody called 4chan I think it said. I don't know who they are, I'll google them...' Me: 'Mum, really. Don't. Thats not healthy lol'
The other day they took down ACS law's website. Thats the bloke who's been trying to do people for copywrite theift from illegal downloading (Just in the UK I think). Including trying to sue my mum =/, which was really funny, cause today she told me 'That tw**'s websites been taken down by somebody called 4chan I think it said. I don't know who they are, I'll google them...' Me: 'Mum, really. Don't. Thats not healthy lol'
Facebook doesn't need really powerful servers, not to the level sites like youtube would need, although they see alot of traffic its just text and pictures, a few hundred people hitting it with Low Oribit Ion Cannons would take it down.DazZ. said:
I really don't think it would, considering the millions of Facebook users per hour, and Facebook does host videos and an immense amount of (pointless) photos being uploaded constantly.DamienHell said:
It would take (much) more than a few hundred, seeing as FB has more than 30,000 servers.
Also, if it only took a poxy thousand people to take down Facebook, it would be down constantly.
Just because there are threads claiming credit for the server downtime doesn't mean they actually did it. Likely just another example of trolls trolling trolls.
I think /b/ needs to rethink their approach if their after facebook for selling user info, ddos attacks on facebook will only annoy facebook users for a while. If you want to really punch facebook in face it would be much simpler to create enough user accounts with false information to overload facebook with inaccurate and false data. This would make the information facebook gathered (especially if the operation gained a little attention) to be corrupted and thus uselss to companies who want accurate information.
4chan is a menace to society, we should squash it before their power grows out of control, we've already seen that they can affect real life events, so if we don't do something, then their power may grow to a point where our government is run by internet trolls...
oh jeez, it's already begun! help! they're coming to get m----
*Please disregard the above message as the words of a traitor who would attempt to destroy free speech for the sake of "order". Let it be known that all further instances of heresy against 4chan shall be punished likewise.*
oh jeez, it's already begun! help! they're coming to get m----
*Please disregard the above message as the words of a traitor who would attempt to destroy free speech for the sake of "order". Let it be known that all further instances of heresy against 4chan shall be punished likewise.*
Okay, I don't think I should have to explain this, but understand that Anonymous is not a group of super heroes out for the good of all. Encyclopedia Dramatica covers it fairly well:
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Anonymous
While Anonymous does a lot of good things (from my perspective, and that if the general internet userbase) they also do a lot of bad things just for fun. Or just stuff that makes people go "WTF" without being good or bad.
I don't follow them too often, nor do I frequent 4chan or other sites/area where they hang out. But don't forget they also use chat rooms and such (going by logs) as well as message and image boards, and whatever else they need. Just because you scan /B/ quickly doesn't mean your going to find answers to anything they do. What's more there definatly seems to be a distinction between the people involved, and I haven't been interested enough so far to really find out how all the politics work and what sites/groups tend to get what done.
The point here being that there might not be some great and noble reason for messing with Facebook. It might just be that the guy running it is apparently a douche (and is getting a lot of attention on that account due to a recent movie, hence the timing), and has decided to try and make himself seem like less of a greedy, backstabing, thieving dork (according to articles and apparently that movie which I have not seen) by donating a hundred million dollars to education. Messing with his site might be a way of saying " we still think your a dork despite the charity". Or maybe they are just doing it for the lulz, the fact that we're talking about it now being the entire point. Unless Anonymous clearly states a purpose it's generally hard to say what their motivations are at any given moment.
I will also say that from what I've seen, the people in Anonymous happen to be a mixed bag. While a bunch of people from /B/ acting in concert as a raid can do a lot of things, there seem to be a core of people that have some real skills that can do incredible amounts of electronic manipulation, and their involvement is what makes the differance between an epic action, and something that is kind of a joke.
To some extent I tend to think of Anonymous as sort of being a descendant of the old "Legion Of Doom" (hacker group, look them up along with MoD on say Wikipedia). Albiet a lot more active. What guys like Lex Luthor did back in the day were fairly epic.
At any rate all rambling aside, it seems to be over, time will tell if anything is going to come of it.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Anonymous
While Anonymous does a lot of good things (from my perspective, and that if the general internet userbase) they also do a lot of bad things just for fun. Or just stuff that makes people go "WTF" without being good or bad.
I don't follow them too often, nor do I frequent 4chan or other sites/area where they hang out. But don't forget they also use chat rooms and such (going by logs) as well as message and image boards, and whatever else they need. Just because you scan /B/ quickly doesn't mean your going to find answers to anything they do. What's more there definatly seems to be a distinction between the people involved, and I haven't been interested enough so far to really find out how all the politics work and what sites/groups tend to get what done.
The point here being that there might not be some great and noble reason for messing with Facebook. It might just be that the guy running it is apparently a douche (and is getting a lot of attention on that account due to a recent movie, hence the timing), and has decided to try and make himself seem like less of a greedy, backstabing, thieving dork (according to articles and apparently that movie which I have not seen) by donating a hundred million dollars to education. Messing with his site might be a way of saying " we still think your a dork despite the charity". Or maybe they are just doing it for the lulz, the fact that we're talking about it now being the entire point. Unless Anonymous clearly states a purpose it's generally hard to say what their motivations are at any given moment.
I will also say that from what I've seen, the people in Anonymous happen to be a mixed bag. While a bunch of people from /B/ acting in concert as a raid can do a lot of things, there seem to be a core of people that have some real skills that can do incredible amounts of electronic manipulation, and their involvement is what makes the differance between an epic action, and something that is kind of a joke.
To some extent I tend to think of Anonymous as sort of being a descendant of the old "Legion Of Doom" (hacker group, look them up along with MoD on say Wikipedia). Albiet a lot more active. What guys like Lex Luthor did back in the day were fairly epic.
At any rate all rambling aside, it seems to be over, time will tell if anything is going to come of it.
