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Become a Member Sign In. General Newsletters Got a news tip? Free: Join the VentureBeat Community for access to 3 premium posts and unlimited videos per month. Learn More. Some say it's an empty one. According to a YouTube video uploaded in July but covered widely this week, Anonymous is planning a full-fledged assault against the world's largest social network on November 5, or Guy Fawkes' Day.
Fawkes is the guy that tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in and has become the unofficial mascot for Anonymous. In a characteristically garbled computer voice, the video says that "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" and vows to "kill Facebook.
After the video was widely shared, one Twitter account closely associated with Anonymous quickly denied that Operation Facebook was sanctioned by Anonymous on Wednesday. Important things are happening in the world to deal with quirks like OpFacebook. This does not necessarily mean that all of Anonymous agrees with it," AnonOps later clarified. Other Anonymous accounts followed suit with similar statements.
As AnonOps indicated, some media outlets covered the threat as an orchestrated Anonymous operation. Others were more skeptical. About half of that set suspected the whole thing was a hoax, and the other half speculated that even if Anonymous members worldwide united behind the cause, they probably couldn't put a dent in Mark Zuckerberg's hackerproof ship. Matt Peckham at Time's Techland blog reports on the hoax claim :. But the video's not yet been referenced by any of Anonymous' "official" websites or Twitter accounts.
That, and security expert Eugene Kapersky of Kapersky Lab, the security company says it's probably just a hoax.
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