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Drakkith said:Wuliheron, are you going to contribute to the thread or spout nonsense all day long?
If you don't like Orwellian double speak you should avoid political threads.
Drakkith said:Wuliheron, are you going to contribute to the thread or spout nonsense all day long?
Newai said:By the way, everyone, their messages show a dissension among themselves about attacking Facebook. That might make things interesting in the months to come.
Maybe they want people to get worried about their privacy so that they will delete their facebookdata. Or just give them a fair chance to do so.Evo said:So why are they waiting so long? Any ideas?
pftest said:Maybe they want people to get worried about their privacy so that they will delete their facebookdata. Or just give them a fair chance to do so.
wuliheron said:[...] Green Peace ramming whaling ships [...]
wuliheron said:In some countries the legislature will even have mock brawls and wrestling matches on the floor to prove to their constituents they are literally fighting for their interests.
KingNothing said:I don't know why people are celebrating this. Cyber-crime is still crime. What they are doing is wrong and unethical. Attacking the assets and digital property of a privately-held company just because you don't like what they do is completely immoral.
They also attacked military e-mail servers and numerous other government servers. They leaked thousands of *.mil e-mail addresses and passwords to the public just to cause chaos. Those are used by our soldiers.
Why anyone would support them in any criminal effort is beyond me.
Newai said:Okay, I've had two of my replies misconstrued. If it happens again, I'm buying everyone pizza and beer.
Great. I love caviar and champagne.Newai said:Okay, I've had two of my replies misconstrued. If it happens again, I'm buying everyone pizza and beer.
Jack21222 said:I support Anon because I think just a little bit of chaos is good. It's kinda like a vaccine. What Anon does is mostly harmless, and I suspect that what they do will help harden their targets against future attacks, attacks which might be more serious. The fact that they're around gives companies and governments a reason to secure their digital assets. Also, while they do it, they keep ideas such personal privacy and government transparency alive.
Plus, Anon also does some real good in the world. They set up proxy servers for Iranian protesters after their internet was severely restricted, as one example. That was a "criminal effort" in some countries, for what it's worth.
wuliheron said:With China hacking into governments everywhere, Russian hackers stealing billions, and 180,000 known viruses nobody needs Anonymous to be inspired to secure their digital assets.
wuliheron said:If you don't like Orwellian double speak you should avoid political threads.
Then why aren't they secure?
Ok so what if this is all a conspiracy plot planned by the secret alien governments of the world to get people to hate them? I know it sounds crazy but why would hackers actually waste time with facebook especially when it will just make tons of unemployed hobos angry that they can't virtually grow cows on a virtual farm? Ya I'm sure of it now the grays are up to no good again.
Jack21222 said:Then why aren't they secure?
Drakkith said:No, you should make some sense and stick to the topic.
turbo said:By announcing their intentions so early, they are giving Zuckerburg a long time to harden his security, so if they manage to kill FB, it will make them appear pretty potent.
ForMyThunder said:Why? Even if you agree that facebook is mostly a waste of time, what gives anyone the right to destroy someone else's property? They claim their labours are to build a heaven; yet their heaven is populated with horrors.
ForMyThunder said:Why? Even if you agree that facebook is mostly a waste of time, what gives anyone the right to destroy someone else's property? They claim their labours are to build a heaven; yet their heaven is populated with horrors.
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KingNothing said:I don't know why people are celebrating this. Cyber-crime is still crime. What they are doing is wrong and unethical. Attacking the assets and digital property of a privately-held company just because you don't like what they do is completely immoral.
Well that's an interesting view point and I'm empathic to it. But I also feel strongly that some of these companies under attack are completely devoid of ethics.
Granted that in the 20th century fictional entities operating in the world of commerce were legally afforded the rights and attributes of flesh-and-blood human beings. Meaning that companies can do many things a person can within the legal framework (a bizarre situation IMO). Following that line of thought and considering a company to have other human attributes such as ethics and emotions leads to some startling conclusions. If you consider the psychological state of some companies you will see that they are despotic, sociopathic megalomaniacs. I feel if it were a flesh and blood person doing the things some of these companies do, some reasonable force to bring them in-line would be... acceptable.
Face book is pretty naughty i recon. They plant cross-domain cookies on everyones computer that record users data. These cookies then talk with other third party sites and offer up the users info so the third party site can tailor adverts for the market.
That is like going into a social networking public house (pub) and chatting with your friend about football. With the bar-tender then taking notes on your conversation and pinning a sign on your back saying 'potential football punter'.
See, facebook doesn't sell your data per se, but they do run a system whereby other companies can have access to these cross-domain cookies, and your data. That's why you see all these 'like' buttons everywhere. The only entities paying any attention to the things people like are facebook and other prying companies.
That is partly why facebook is worth $15billion.
Do they deserve to be hacked? Yeah, why not. In a way, they are hacking us all the time.
Moonbear said:So are the riots in London. It doesn't make it right or effective, it just makes them another group of law-breaking thugs.
KingNothing said:I don't know why people are celebrating this. Cyber-crime is still crime. What they are doing is wrong and unethical. Attacking the assets and digital property of a privately-held company just because you don't like what they do is completely immoral.
They also attacked military e-mail servers and numerous other government servers. They leaked thousands of *.mil e-mail addresses and passwords to the public just to cause chaos. Those are used by our soldiers.
Why anyone would support them in any criminal effort is beyond me.
I don't think the majority of Americans know who Guy Fawkes is, so any meaning is lost on most people outside of the UK, IMO.Galteeth said:To answer Evo's question, "Remember remember the Fifth of November."
It's Guy Fawkes day, and the Guy fawkes mask (used in V for Vendetta) is a symbol of Anonymous.
Evo said:I don't think the majority of Americans know who Guy Fawkes is, so any meaning is lost on most people outside of the UK, IMO.
I had also heard that anonymous didn't approve of the threat.Galteeth said:Right, I don't think it's meant to be symbolic. Understand this kid didn't post this on one of the websites that are known to be organizational Anon websites. It's more like he just picked a day that he thought would be cool, and that day is sort of associated with anonymous. One of the ironic aspects is that if the media hadn't blown up this story, this person probably would have been ignored. Now though, cause it's become a news story, he might draw some followers who want to get in on the action.
Evo said:I had also heard that anonymous didn't approve of the threat.
DaveC426913 said:Well, hacking the site might not be legal, but it would make an awesome lightning rod for unhappy FB users to band together and boycott FB en mass.
I've just signed up to Google+. Hopefully I'll be able to keep tabs on my friends without
destroying everyone's privacy.