On Nov. 5, 1605, a group of angry English Catholics unhappy with the way the current king was going about his business devised a plot to assassinate their country’s leader on this date.
The plot was simple: blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament while King James I was inside.
Unfortunately, an anonymous letter was sent to the authorities on Oct. 26 and the night before the assassination attempt was to take place, conspirator Guy Fawkes was found guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder underneath the House of Lords.
This infamous assassination attempt is known as the Gunpowder Plot.
The date is now known as Guy Fawkes Day.
On Nov. 5, 2011, a group of angry Internet nerds unhappy with the way the current social networking structure is set up is devising a plot to bring the biggest networks to their knees.
 
The plot is simple: the group plans on destroying Facebook due to privacy concerns within the social network.
It’s not going to happen. The way Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and crew have developed the social networking giant, I don’t see a bunch of angry nerds in their mothers’ basements bringing the site down at all — this isn’t the Pentagon’s site.
This soon-to-be infamous operation is known as OpFaceBook.
The already infamous Internet group behind it is known as Anonymous. For those unfamiliar with Anonymous, the “group” or idea started on the image board website 4chan.
When one posts on 4chan, users’ names are automatically defaulted to “Anonymous.” For this reason, the site is plagued with controversial and risqué material due to people hiding under the Anonymous banner.
Soon enough, many of these Anonymous posters with similar ideas (and vast computer knowledge and experience) banded together to wreak havoc on the Internet.
Just this summer, Anonymous was responsible for cyber attacks on the Pentagon, News Corp and many other sites, according to BusinessInsider.
Their actions even lead to the creation of another “hacktivist” group known as LulzSec who once hacked the PBS website and claimed Tupac Shakur was still alive — as well as many other respectable sites such as the CIA’s website.
Summer shenanigans aside, Anonymous now reportedly has its sights set on Facebook.
Usually representing themselves in Guy Fawkes masks, Anonymous sent out a news release earlier this month citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting your Facebook account as the main reasons for the attack.
“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,” the release read.
It’s no secret Facebook isn’t the most secure place to store your personal information.
During the summer of 2010, Zuckerberg addressed these gaping holes in Facebook security and vowed to correct it while making it “much easier to control what you share on