Again anonymous threatens Facebook Shutdown 28’January 2012

Anonymous is scheduling to intention Facebook in an attack on 28’January as a minimum that’s what a video uploaded to YouTube on the last Monday is declaring in the name of the world’s hacker networks.

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“An online fighting has begun between Anonymous, the people and the governments of the United States,” the video instigates. “While PIPA and SOPA perhaps delayed from Congress, this doesn’t promise that our Internet privileges will be upheld.”
Subsequent the U.S. government’s shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload on the last Friday, Anonymous assailed the U.S. Department of Justice’s website, among others.

On Monday’ YouTube video calls on the American people to partake in the hack by downloading LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon), the device that was effectively used to target the responsibility of Justice. LOIC crashes websites by sending thousands of information packets’ to their servers.

The video gives instructions for downloading and running the program, over and above a time 12:00 AM on 28’January to start on the attack. No time zone, conversely, is distinguished.

“Would you like to become part of the greatest Internet protest and first official cyber war?” the video asks. “Operation Global Blackout is ongoing and everyone can be a part of it.”

Facebook, of course, is one of the world’s largest website, in service through thousands of servers located across the world. In the video, Anonymous acknowledges the difficulties of attacking such a large site.

“While it is true that Facebook has at least 60,000 servers, it is motionless potential to bring it down,” says the Anonymous voice. “Anonymous needs the help of the people.”

YouTube commenters have raised a significant issue, why would Anonymous want to crashes Facebook, after the site came out against SOPA and PIPA?

The video fundamentally equate the privately-owned company with the U.S. government, with no reasons for the connection. CNET proposes that Zuckerberg took too long to voice his opposition, landing his social network a spot on the potential targets list.

We’ve heard this threat before from the global network of activists, who promised to shut down the site on earlier 5-Nov-2011, over user privacy concerns. Ultimately, no attack was executed and the loosely-connected hacker network called the threats the work of tangential members.

Courtesy: masable.com