SAN FRANCISCO ? Anonymous, the collection of independent hacktivists worldwide, announced this week that they will take down Facebook on Nov. 5, on the British Guy Fawkes Day.
Guy Fawkes was a passionate revolutionary who tried to blow up Britain?s House of Parliament. The event is commemorated each year in Britain with fireworks, CNET News. Com reported.
Anonymous’ press release is candid to its core. It declares: “If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy.”
It then offers an interesting accusation: “Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria.”
There follows a hearty disquisition about how Facebook allegedly owns your information, regardless of whether you delete your account, and makes money from it.
Anonymous makes very clear which side it believes Facebook has made its bed and laid its skateboard. It says: “Facebook is the opposite of the Antisec cause. You are not safe from them nor from any government. One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the internet, we are not harming you but saving you.”
But ZDNet reports that while some Anonymous members may be looking to kill Facebook, the larger hacktivist group does not appear to support their cause.
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