Anonymous Message: Operation Kill Facebook

here is a transcript:

Attention citizens of the world,

We wish to get your attention, hoping you heed the warnings as follows:
Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed. If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy.

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. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria.

Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your "privacy" settings, and deleting your account is impossible, even if you "delete" your account, all your personal info stays on Facebook and can be recovered at any time. Changing the privacy settings to make your Facebook account more "private" is also a delusion. Facebook knows more about you than your family. http://www.physorg.com/news170614271.htmlhttp://itgrunts.com/2010/10/07/facebook-steals-numbers-and-data-from-your-iph....

You cannot hide from the reality in which you, the people of the internet, live in. Facebook is the opposite of the Antisec cause. You are not safe from them nor from any government. One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the internet, we are not harming you but saving you.

The riots are underway. It is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It is a battle for choice and informed consent. It's unfolding because people are being raped, tickled, molested, and confused into doing things where they don't understand the consequences. Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is completely false. It gives users the illusion of and hides the details away from them "for their own good" while they then make millions off of you. When a service is "free," it really means they're making money off of you and your information.

Think for a while and prepare for a day that will go down in history. November 5 2011, #opfacebook . Engaged.

This is our world now. We exist without nationality, without religious bias. We have the right to not be surveilled, not be stalked, and not be used for profit. We have the right to not live as slaves.

We are anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us

Gmail Motion Beta: Lol Hard

Appearing on the Google homepage is a link to a new gmail BETA project entitled Gmail Motion. The videos and information contained in the link inform us that Google have developed a motion-capacitive email add-on for their gmail service. Prepare to lol hard as you read the information that is included with this link. Another great April Fools joke that I hope nobody fell for. :-)

This is the link to the full BETA project:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

April Fools Pranks That The Internet Got Up To Today

The internet is one of the best places for spreading viral ideas and many of the industries biggest providers cannot help themselves when it comes to April Fool's day. Here is a brief review of some of the pranks on the net today. 

Firstly youtube posted this video this morning a very tame larf but I suppose they have to be reserved. However, I did very much enjoy the jazz cat. 

The wikipedia home page was full of a dodgey featured article, a lot of silly did you knows and even more unlikely events on this day. Here it is for you all the links should be active. If not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Today's featured article

Fanny scratching in 18th-century London's Cock Lane was so notorious that interested bystanders often blocked the street. It became the focus of a religious controversy between Methodists and orthodox Anglicans, and was reported on by celebrities of the period such as Samuel Johnson. Charles Dickens referred to the phenomenon in several of his books, including Nicholas Nickleby and A Tale of Two Cities, and other Victorian authors also alluded to it in their work. One enterprising resident diverted the crowds that gathered in Cock Lane by allowing them to converse with a ghost he claimed was haunting his home, to which he charged an entrance fee. Fanny scratching eventually resulted in several prosecutions, and the pillorying of a father. (more...)

Did you know...

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ... that the Australian government requires high-risk sex workers to wear full-facerespirators (example pictured)?
• ... that Ntrepid was paid $2.76 million by the U.S. military to create sock puppets?
• ... that Batman is half female?
• ... that nesting is not used by breeding Mute Swans but they do use this thing?
• ... that Robert Tappan Morris was convicted of a crime for releasing a worm?
• ... that Dr. Who's parents are Brazilians from a family known for pineapples?
• ... that even small amounts of dead cat can explode when heated?
• ... that Europe was ruled by a child during the American Revolutionary War?
• ... that a typical Labia minor is chocolate brown, up to 7 mm long, and is equipped with pincers?
  
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On this day...

April 1: National Day in Iran (1979); Assyrian New Year; Edible Book Day; andApril Fools' Day 1234 – An Englishman lost the Battle of the Curragh in Ireland, at the same place where an Australian would lose the 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge in Scotland more than 700 years later. 1789 – Frederick Muhlenberg (pictured) became the first person to qualify under the United States Constitution's strict mandate of what defines a head of the household for U.S. government purposes. 1933 – Wally was found in Eden Park having run 336 times, more than anyone elsein recorded history at the time. 1969 – The British-born model Hawker Siddeley Harrier was introduced at a Royal Air Force event, becoming the only one in the 1960s to successfully perform on a short runway. And what about Google itself did it get up to any old tricks? Well the played a trick with the fonts in that if you typed Helvetica into the search engine the original Comic Sans changed to the former.

Twitter claimed that they were going to begin charging for tweets.  Virgin announced that Richard Branson had purchased pluto. Ryanair claimed that from October 2011 all flights would be child-free. This is one of the funniest ones, the Independent claimed that Portugal sold Christiano Ronaldo to Spain to pay off some of the national debt. And finally one for those Apple-addicts, Playmobile launched an 'Apple Store' Playset. I want one. Enjoy the rest of the day fools and foolers.