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Hacking team Anonymous has issued a deadline of November 5th for Zynga to comply with its demands, or it’ll take down Facebook and release Zynga’s popular casual games for free.
The “beef” here lies with Zynga’s plans to lay of 1,000 staff members and supposedly outsource more of its development and support work, despite having a rather robust financial position. In a since-removed YouTube video, Anonymous said: “With a billion dollars cash sitting in a bank we do believe that such actions are an insult to the population and the behaviour of corporations like Zynga must change.”
Zynga didn’t do itself any favours by announcing plans to sack staff a few weeks ago, right in the middle of Apple’s iPhone 5 launch event — a move many believed was a rather clumsy attempt at burying the news. [Wired via Independent -- Thanks Darrell]
Image credit: Anonymous via Shutterstock
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How I hope they take down Facebook for good…..the streets would be full of people meeting real people blinking in the daylight
There’s daylight out there!!?
[Throws away "happy-lamp", dons coat and runs outside only to be slapped in the face by an unhappy North Londoner... retreats back to the safety of Facebook]
Ah, your problem is living in North London!
My problem is living in Kent and commuting 2hrs everyday to North London…
how can i face really people i need smilies help me nooooooo
I can see this achieving the square root of fuck all, as per usual.
I’m not sure how they plan to crash facebook, which unlike most of their targets is designed to handle huge amounts of traffic simultaneously. The usual DDOS attack will just be load balanced out of existence.
Exactly, just another example of Anonymous showing themselves to be the rag-tag bunch of script kiddies they really are.
I’m not a hacker, but at least I know that. They seem to live in a state of permanent denial!
Well, if they took a more direct approach they’d be entering the world of…ahem….’terrorism’.
You misunderstand what I’m saying.
I’m saying they’re inept. They’re a group of kids who have watched a few videos about hacking on Youtube.
Following my analogy, if they took a more direct approach they’d be throwing french bangers at trains.
I agree totally with @cloudfire. I would add that I personally think that someone forcing their own politics on someone else is fascism, which is exactly what anonymous do.
Get the president to do an AMA on it. It worked for reddit.
Looks like someone at anon used to work at Zynga then, should make it easier to track him down and lock up the little sh*t