Facebook to be hacked

[GG_Guru]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

Facebook most likely won't get hacked. I mean we're talking about a billion dollar industry here. I'm pretty sure security will be extremely tight which would make it a daunting task for anyone to break through the system.

[rushyrulz]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

Anonymous is Mark Zuckerburg
Try that one on for size.

[benguino]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

Anonymous is Mark Zuckerburg
Try that one on for size.

If he reveals his identity later on, I'd like to see that scenario played out.

[welsh_girl]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

Facebook most likely won't get hacked. I mean we're talking about a billion dollar industry here. I'm pretty sure security will be extremely tight which would make it a daunting task for anyone to break through the system.

PSN, anyone?

[supermousie]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

However, Sony is incompetent.

@FFR Legend: could be a false name...

[devonin]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

Video by "Ramiyadi"

What makes you think this is even -by- the actual people who make up Anonymous? Isn't that the whole point of being anonymous?

[blindreper1179]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

PSN, anyone?

Psn wasn't anon. That was said earlier in the thread. <_<

[Emithith]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

Video by "Ramiyadi"

What makes you think this is even -by- the actual people who make up Anonymous? Isn't that the whole point of being anonymous?

The name Anonymous is misleading. I hear that they are an actual group of people (1-??? people). They are skilled hackers and have done things like get Justin Bieber's music page on a popular site and fill it with porn, etc. They DDOS'd Minecraft and brought it down for a day.
1 person alone may not be able to bring down FB, but they ARE "legion". This will be interesting for sure.

[Quigly]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

we r anon we r legion obey the internet muah *:

[-zeroSKILL-]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

Psn wasn't anon. That was said earlier in the thread. <_<

She sited the PSN attack because Guru said he didn't think Anon would be able to pull off bringing down FB because they're a multi million dollar company, and security should be tight.

PSN, anyone?

Make more sense now, or you still in the dark ;p

[AlexDest]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

lol

[Snowcrafta]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

*~*fArT*~*

pretty much the only post worth reading

some kiddies do this, get some media attention, and nothing's going to happen.

[supermousie]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

The name Anonymous is misleading. I hear that they are an actual group of people (1-??? people). They are skilled hackers and have done things like get Justin Bieber's music page on a popular site and fill it with porn, etc. They DDOS'd Minecraft and brought it down for a day.
1 person alone may not be able to bring down FB, but they ARE "legion". This will be interesting for sure.

The name Anonymous does not refer to a single person, but refers to a collective of people; a grassroots leader group if you will.

Skilled hackers? Not quite. The original instigator gets the attention of other members of Anonymous. Then a chatroom (say tinychat) is created, and they communicate through there. Ddosing takes the form of pinging the target website using cmd- flooding it with useless packets until the servers can't handle the load. Filling Bieber's page with pornography is a matter of guessing passwords through the utilisation of programs and *educated* guesses from the wonderful human mind. Most attacks involve brute force.

[-zeroSKILL-]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

You try to belittle them. Alone they are nothing more than kids with programs, as a collective they can pose a serious threat.

Brute forcing amongst dozens of users won't take nearly as long as a single hacker. They make their mark by working collectively. I'm not saying it's a reason to fear them, but do take them seriously when they choose to act as a group.

The attack may last only a short while before they're caught, but they are capable of far more damage than they actually do. They're just pussy about it because of prison time. After a certain point the actions they commit are no longer just breaking the law, but become acts of terrorism or near that level. Next to no one smart enough to pull off the kind of stuff they do is dumb enough to go to prison for years because of malicious actions on the interwebz. They'll keep it "small" but noticed. Less jail time if caught.

The internet is scary vulnerable. As a collective society we just have so many rules in place on it that it's not worth the risk of doing certain things. Stuff on the internet is unfortunately tracked very carefully, and every proxy/vpn you use keeps records of your connections. You are rarely ever truly anonymous.

If I wanted I could easily pull password hashes off of FFR, and set a program to decrypting those password hashes to plaintext. And if you want the job done quickly, use your GPU rather than your CPU to brute force the passes. You'll turn a 3 month job of password searching into a single day. Your GPU has incredible processing potential vs your CPU. It's just *incredibly* illegal to even go about attaining the password hashes off of any database.

Most people that have knowledge of how to do so only have that knowledge because they want to know how to do it, not because they actually plan to do it. It's interesting stuff to learn if you care, but scary if you intend to actually do it.

Hell, it's scary knowing how easy it is to do it. If it weren't for the law cracking down so strictly on certain types of e-threats, the internet would be a far more desolate place than it is now, left only to the coding monkeys. Anonymous is not an organization to fear in the least. They merely try to make their voice heard, and gain publicity about their current social agenda/political cause/personal vendetta.

None of those pale faced, LCD tanned, basement dwelling mama boys want to spend more than a minute in a prison cell with Bubba, and they know just how far they can push the limit before ending up with Bubba usually.

Just be thankful the internet has such strict regulations on personal/confidential information, and that no group weaker than 25% of the Earths population (unless government based) will overthrow any major website for more than a few days~

edit:
just because most of my post was serious, i don't want people to think i actually believe 25% of the worlds population would only be able to down a website for a few days... that is what people call "hyperbole".

[Quigly]

Re: Facebook to be hacked

none of us here know how to work a computer but it's okay guys

we have ~*zeroskill*~ as our guide