Anonymous Announces “Operation Facebook”

[Joelcool7]

Galaki said:

Joelcool7 said:

Your info may be scattered all over the net, but that's the whole point of it, scattered. This makes it hard for id theft since you may share names and other such info with someone else. It would be too much trouble to do id theft that way.

With facebook, however, you have all the info harvested in one convenient place, making id theft all that much easier.

If you want to erase your track, it's also easier if your info is scattered. I.E. You change you nick altogether. Since there are many people may be sharing the same real name as you, there's no way to be sure the new nick that you go by is you. Now, put that on facebook and you're stuck forever when people can easier browse your history.

This is the same excuse people trying to give when Sony got hacked. Sony harvested too much info together in 1 convenvient place. Although, to be fair, all companies are trying to harvest info regardless whether they needed it. They could bundle and sell that info for a lot of money.

Unfortunetly for everyone who is a FaceBook user clearing out all your data or closing your account won't actually clear your data from FaceBook. I had someone trying to frame me for something so I hired a lawyer the first thing he said was did I have any convo's with the individual on FaceBook. I said I did but I deleted them. He then told me that if I read the user agreement that FaceBook retains records of all convo's and all information is stored. So I luckily had evidence and we settled out of court.

Long story short if you have ever been a FaceBook user their is nothing you can do to protect yourself because FaceBook has all your info stored. If someone hacks them with the intent of using your info then they will have access to it regardless of whether you liquidate your profile.

However I don't think Anonymous will be giving your personal info away it would be pretty hypocritical as their reason given in their official press release for hacking FaceBook is that FaceBook sells its users personal info to Governments.

So stealing that info and providing it to the whole world free of charge seems a bit insaine, then again these are terrorists and just like all terrorists they are lacking in the sanity department!