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I was yesterday at their IRC, prepared to laugh at them, but it was quite interesting. First, they try to look united on twitter and to media, but they quite a
by runn1ng 15y ago
I was yesterday at their IRC, prepared to laugh at them, but it was quite interesting.
First, they try to look united on twitter and to media, but they quite aren't. Second, they are INCREDIBLY naive. Third, they are OBSESSED with attention of the media.
They were actually planning the attack on #OpFacebook channel (so no, it was not fake - and the channel still exists, but they probably realized it is a joke so they turned it into a joke). After they realized they quite can't attack their servers, they thought it would be better to get people passwords by "botnet keylogger" (and I am not making it up), steal about 1 million accounts and then DEACTIVATE THEM ALL, which would I guess do something terribly evil to Facebook.
Someone brought the question if this doesn't give media and police the right to label them as terrorist, and someone else replied that "police and media are the real terrorists". After that sentence, I laughed too loud and had to leave the IRC.
edit: and apparently, it is still going on - http://pastebin.com/nzaNLWfF http://pastebin.com/nzaNLWfF . Or maybe not, who knows
edit2: ....and they closed the channel for speaking now. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
- cpeterso 15y ago> they thought it would be better to get people passwords by "botnet keylogger" (and I am not making it up), steal about 1 million accounts and then DEACTIVATE THEM ALL, which would I guess do something terribly evil to Facebook. That is not a bad approach. If you assume Facebook's network infrastructure is rock solid, then attack Facebook's human infrastructure by flooding them customer services calls. I don't think you need a botnet keylogger to grab Facebook passwords because their users are easily confused or duped. For example, ReadWriteWeb wrote about Facebook's plans for login federation and many Facebook users, googling for "facebook login", found this blog and tried to login there! https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_loginpage2.php https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_y...