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[Blood Falcon]

http://www.huffingto...k_n_922691.html

Pretty much a part of Anonymous is planning to hack Facebook and take it down on November 5th due to Facebook selling personal information to the government.

I think what they're doing is right, personal information is meant to stay personal and not sold. Thoughts?

[Rujio]

To Google+!

hey i bet google and anonymous are related or working together or something

Anyways, why would they announce their plans?

[kirant]

I really think they're being little kids over this...as long as you're aware of Facebook's plans and don't mind, you should be allowed to use the service. I don't care if the government has my information...I have so little on there (name, birthdate, location and various useless interests) it doesn't matter.

[Blood Falcon]

@Rujio: They usually announce their plans beforehand.
@Kirant: Facebook has been doing behind people's backs and I guarantee you that most people don't even know about it.

[kirant]

[Swordsalmon]

Anonymous best not be getting in my way of communicating with some of my buddies. I could care less about the government having my information; I already freely gave them that!

[bluspidr]

[Sleipnir36]

Sure, such actions are a good way to sensetive people about their treat of their information (which is always good), but the part about hacking FB sounds more like selve justified crime.

[Fitz24]

It says their YouTube account is from Afghanistan...conspiracy? Probably not.

I mean, I understand why they want to do it.....but it just seems like there isn't much reason to do it other than inflict fear on everyone. I for one don't care too much if it's taken down or not. (There's always Google+).

[bblues]

'Personal information'

Because a census form doesn't have all that anyways.

The government can find out what TV shows you like, OH NO.

[Zepher Tensho]

1. I don't have any real info on FB.
2. I'm in the same boat as Swordsalmon. I WORK for the government, they already have ALL my info. What do I care <w>

[Thezalor]

I dislike Face Book. I don't have an account, and I never plan too. I honestly will find it really funny if this happens. I will probably be one of very few people laughing since since I hate FB.

[Soviet Comrade]

A lot of anons are just self-righteous rebels who want to change the world.

Then there are those who don't give a damn and only do things for the lulz.

And then there are those who think the other two are simply wasting their time. I would fit into this category, if any.

[Prince Marph]

Yes, they DO give information to the government. They usually do this in criminal cases; its like if google gives its information about a certain map or something printed out in a murder case. The police actually told us this upfront to our school about school-related issues, like bomb threats and things like that (which one year we had 2 in the same 2 week period)

I don't really care because I hold the general consensus that any information on the internet is available for someone's access and that I should not post private information on the internet.

[SmashedFish]

Have any Facebook staff responded? If they're smart, they'll issue a formal apology and stop doing that. They ARE dealing with part of Anonymous, after all.

[Ristau]

I've never heard of "Anonyous" who are they and what have they done in the past (and is it supposed to be the word anonymous misspelled or does the word Anonyous mean something completely different?"

[Sothe]

Well, they can feel free to hack Facebook if you ask me. I don't give a damn. I hate that stupid site, I always have. Terrorism? Eh. Maybe. But what Facebook and the government is doing is wrong, even if you DON'T have anything important on there.

[SmashedFish]

http://anonplus.bomb....net/index.html

I must say, their social networking site looks much nicer than Facebook.

[Holy Kensai]

Yes, because this makes any sort of sense.

There are two types of profiles.
1)Real Profile
2)Fake Profile

Now real profiles can be cut down to two types
1a) Registered Citizens
1b) Illegal Immigrants

All the information put on facebook by group 1a is information the government should already know (name, date of birth, gender)

Now it comes down to group 1b and group 2. They won't have any way of discerning between the two, so either it'll screw up statistics or a bunch of money will be wasted trying to kick fake people out of the country.

Pretty much I don't believe facebook is selling information to the government. It's either information they have, or is useless, or can be gotten by cheaper.

I won't start on anonymous and their religion of constant failing.

[Bobryk]

Meh...the government knows all about me anyway. The only thing I don't like about facebook is that (possible and future) employers use it to generalize you >.>

As for this, uh, scheme, I doubt it'll work, and I doubt it'll have much of an effect. But hey, I could be wrong.