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.
Anon attacked Facebook
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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----
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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.
that only applies to raidstheguitarhero6 said:
O.T. I seemed to have got on fine and it seems to work now
Facebook isn't working for me either. I'm quarantined in my house for being highly contagious with strep throat and a virus (lucky me), and between texting which isn't allowed during school hours and facebook, that's one thing I can't use until Anon ends their lulz.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the Facebook server was just having issues and /b/ claimed to have done it... Or they are working on a new update that will make Facebook even worse... it's about due for one since I think everyone is used to the last one now...
Blast, and I was having such fun on Kingdoms of Camelot. HOW WILL I EXPEND MY SPARE TIME NOW?!?! HOW I SAY?!
*ahem*
*ahem*
How was /b/ explained to me once? OH yeah!
They are like a swarm of wasps. They can gather quickly to defend the hive and swarm a common foe. If they don't have anything to do, they pick on little defenseless five year old girls.
They just need something new to care about, facebook will fix itself soon enough
They are like a swarm of wasps. They can gather quickly to defend the hive and swarm a common foe. If they don't have anything to do, they pick on little defenseless five year old girls.
They just need something new to care about, facebook will fix itself soon enough
