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Chaos On Facebook
Yikes! Half my friends over on facebook are busy apologizing for posts they never made and never saw, but that appeared on the walls of their friends as if they had. This is evidentially part of an attack on facebook by Anonymous:
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-09/t...ser?_s=PM:TECH
If you are on facebook and need help making your account more private or secure, I might be able to help. However, there are some excellent resources out there on the 'net as well. As far as I can tell, I have not contracted this virus, myself.
Onna my friends recommends that if you get a notice of a photo tag, do not open it. If you get a notification that a friend reported you for offensive behavior, etc., do not open it. If you are sent a video which says 99% of people can not watch this for more the 15 seconds, do not open -- it is also a virus. And do not open any links sent to you by friends via facebook chat.
Apparently, "Anonymous" won't be accepting your friend request.
Members of the shadowy collective known for its politically motivated Web hacks and attacks are targeting Facebook for what they claim to be the social-networking giant's misuse of personal information.
"Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed," the speaker said in a YouTube video, which was posted July 16 but started circulating widely this week.
Using a voice modulator to disguise his (or her) voice, the speaker, who purports to represent Anonymous, invites viewers to "join the cause and kill Facebook for the sake of your own privacy."
"Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your privacy settings, and deleting your account is impossible," the speaker says. "Even if you delete your account, all your information stays on Facebook and can be recovered at any time."
The video also makes the unsubstantiated claim that Facebook has been selling user information to government agencies and giving it to security firms so they can spy on people.
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[T]he site has repeatedly said it doesn't sell information and doesn't share user information with any third parties that the user hasn't approved.
(What utter bull****. If you believe this disclaimer, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.)
"We do not share your personal information with people or services you don't want," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in an opinion piece for the Washington Post last year. "We do not give advertisers access to your personal information. We do not and never will sell any of your information to anyone."
(Liar, liar pants on fire.)
The announced date for the "operation," November 5, is Guy Fawkes Day, a commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot in which Fawkes and others placed explosives under the British House of Lords in 1605.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-09/t...ser?_s=PM:TECH
If you are on facebook and need help making your account more private or secure, I might be able to help. However, there are some excellent resources out there on the 'net as well. As far as I can tell, I have not contracted this virus, myself.
Onna my friends recommends that if you get a notice of a photo tag, do not open it. If you get a notification that a friend reported you for offensive behavior, etc., do not open it. If you are sent a video which says 99% of people can not watch this for more the 15 seconds, do not open -- it is also a virus. And do not open any links sent to you by friends via facebook chat.
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