Remember, remember the fifth of November 2011. That's the day hactivist collective Anonymous plans to "kill" the second-busiest website on the Internet "for the sake of your own privacy." In a video message, Anonymous warns that "you are not safe from them [Facebook] nor from any government" to which the social networking website feeds information.

It "is impossible" for Facebook members to delete their own accounts, the message continues, and "Facebook knows more about you than your family." Unless your family is on Facebook, in which case your relatives tend to know all too much about you.

Anonymous has a lot of trophies on its wall, but Facebook is an ambitious target, perhaps having been selected as a show of strength amid police raids against alleged members of Anonymous.

If the group is successful, in addition to upsetting Facebook it will irritate many of Facebook's 750 million active users, who, together with the site's other visitors, twiddle away more than 700 billion minutes each month poking each other (this according to Facebook's numbers). Anonymous acknowledges as much in the video below, which takes more of a persuasive angle than its other messages, as in: "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."

(By the way, the fifth of November is Guy Fawkes Day, in commemoration of the night in 1605 that Fawkes tried to blow up the British Parliament. Anonymous supporters sometimes don Guy Fawkes masks as seen in the movie "V for Vendetta," and the comic book series it was based on.) -- PZS

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