Anonymous: Who, Us? Attack Facebook?

Call off the alarms: It turns out that hacktivist group Anonymous is not planning an attack on Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day, November 5.

Call off the alarms: It turns out that hacktivist group Anonymous is not planning an attack on Facebook on Guy Fawkes Day, November 5. Rather, the plan is an initiative of a few rogue Anonymous members.

Doesn’t that make you feel safer already?

ZDNet’s Friending Facebook blog reports that Anonymous has denied involvement in what is being called Operation Facebook, via a pair of Twitter accounts that the group has used in the past to communicate with the media.

From the @GroupAnon Twitter feed, which has more than 27,000 followers, via Friending Facebook:

  • No one can speak for the whole of #Anonymous.
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