Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook by yid on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @03:02AM (#2867075)

Hi anonymous, I work at facebook. If you manage to hack us and grab our data, perhaps you'd like to apply for a job? It's not trivial getting the data even with full access, so you could really help our team! Plus the free lunches are pretty good.

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Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook by gasull on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @03:08AM (#2867087)

Apparently it's a fake: https://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/101152229087657984

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Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook by asomiv on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @03:42AM (#2867163)

I thought Anonymous is an unstructured "organization" and that anybody can do anything under their flag without authorization from a central body. How is it that there is apparently a central Twitter account?

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Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook by gasull on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @03:48AM (#2867181)

Maybe it's a bit of a meritocracy? It seems some Twitter accounts are somewhat "official" in the sense that they are followed by most of the people involved in the Anonymous movement.

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Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook by igorgue on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @03:28AM (#2867130)

I don't think they're (if they're, because it looks like a fake) aiming for the data.

If I were them and wanted the data I'd hack a big Facebook application' account and since most of them are very intrusive with their permissions I'd get a lot of data that way.

I bet from the backend it'd be very hard to do it, and the data might be encrypted using a key that only a Facebook user has (the user might have multiple keys and share them with friends... etc etc), anyways, I'm thinking too much about this, it's too late already :).

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Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook by anymoonus on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @03:35AM (#2867147)

If you work at Facebook, mind posting your FB profile?

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Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook by yid on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @11:26AM (#2868650)

Haha, yes I do mind. :)

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Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook by anymoonus on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @02:57PM (#2869669)

Why? How do we know you're not someone who works for a competitor and is out to discredit Facebook?

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Re:Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook by yid on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @06:40PM (#2870524)

You don't. I choose to stay anonymous for many reasons, but if it's any help, nothing I said could be construed as trying to discredit Facebook (even though I'm anonymous).

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