Facebook confirms it has deleted pro-WikiLeaks hackers' account

[The Straight Story]

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WIKILEAKS VIGILANTE WAR SPILLS ONTO WEB

The hackers who say they are sticking up for Wikileaks and Julian Assange continued to flex their digital muscles on Thursday, extending outages at Mastercard.com and Visa.com to a second day. And even as the group claiming responsibility for the attacks openly discussed big new targets like Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook, Twitter took unsuccessful steps to disperse the virtual mob.

A loose-knit group of hackers who gather on the Web site 4Chan.org under the name Anonymous spent most of the past 24 hours playing cat-and-mouse with Twitter, where the group announces its attack plans. On Wednesday night, Twitter suspended its main account -- Anon_Operation -- soon after an attack on Visa.com was announced there. At the time, the account had amassed 22,000 followers.

There were immediate calls for an attack on Twitter that either didn't materialize, or wasn't strong enough to impact the site's performance. Meanwhile, the group managed to quickly regroup using slight variations on its Twitter account name, such as Anon_Operationn.

A Facebook page devoted to the attacks, called "Operation Payback," also was suspended Wednesday night.

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/12/the-vigilante-cyberskirmish-surrounding-wikileaks-has-now-spilled-over-onto-the-wider-internet-and-web-sites-like-mastercard.html

[librechik]

1. good to know there's a way to delete a FB account

I can't figure out how to get out of mine...

[valerief]

2. Ha! Maybe that's what we all should do. Change our FB accts to Pro-Winkidinks accts.

(Using the KO-Miller bastardization of the name.)

[Luciferous]

3. :)

[gratuitous]

4. The page was just suspended

1 You can never delete a Facebook account.

2 Do you really want to delete your account?

3 Are you sure?

4 Proceeding further will delete your Facebook account.

5 Do you want to delete your account?

6 GO TO 2

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