Anon nonplussed with Google+

David Swan
Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:18

Business IT - Security

Members of infamous hacking collective Anonymous have announced they're starting a Facebook rival of their own, to be known as AnonPlus.

The site appears to have a lot of catching up to do if it wants to compete with Zuckerberg's Facebook, and Google.

At the time of writing AnonPlus features just one page, and is described as 'your future', and a 'great incipience', and describes the welcome page as being there to 'dispence info'.

"This is one social network that will not tolerate being shut down, censored, or oppressed--even in the face of blackout.'

Ironically, members of Anonymous are themselves anonymous, and no member of the collective is an official member, with the group instead being a 'hivemind', a loose collection of members with a shared objective.

It is unclear of AnonPlus would require its members to share their identity, and if so what aspects.

The group has had its share of 'success' however, including the organization of mass real life rallies against the Church of Scientology.

Just today Anonymous leaked former News Ltd. chief Rebekah Brooks' email address and password.

Mashable is reporting that the group is starting the social networking hub in response to being removed by Google+, which banned its group 'Your Anon News' for violating community standards.

At time of writing AnonPlus has one page and no members, so it has about 750 million people until it can reach the heights of Facebook.