Anonymous invites public to hit Facebook in massive DDoS attack [UPDATE: Denied]
In a brand new video which comes along with a message bringing tidings of an oncoming storm in the face of Facebook, Anonymous has dropped their newest threat. Later in this post I’ll speak for a moment on whether or not this is actually the same Anonymous we’ve been talking about for the past few months, but know this: it doesn’t matter, as the attack that they speak of will be run not by the hackers themselves, but by the public. In this way it is the democratic takedown that Anonymous speaks of each time they represent the greater whole – a perfect crushing of Facebook by the masses that would otherwise make Facebook thrive.
UPDATE: This attack has been denied in kind by sources we’ve trusted in the past to provide Anonymous-run operations.
What this attack will do is to make their DDoS more widespread than its ever been before, inviting anyone who has a computer to join in on the project with but a few clicks. A DDoS attack is what’s also known as a Distributed Denial of Service, this being the same method used last week to take down the Department of Justice, the MPAA, the RIAA, and Universal Pictures. Anonymous has a large collective of users working all around the world to push the buttons of websites so rapidly and so many times that the pages cannot stay active, thusly their “denial of service” has been attained.
That said, Anonymous have created a situation here where their name, nameless, has been used to strike fear into quite a few hearts of those that would otherwise dominate the internet world and seek to control it entirely. Have a peek at a short list of Anonymous stories we’ve got below and learn about them, and decide for yourself if the video above comes from them or is, again, another sham aimed at the big kahuna: Facebook.
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