Facebook being hijack by protesters

Do you know that facebook recently have been hijack by a group of protester? According to CNN.com, about 286 groups had apparently been renamed Control Your Info and had a new message posted to their walls saying.
“Hello, we hereby announce that we have officially hijacked your Facebook group,” the message reads. “This means we control a certain part of the information about you on Facebook. If we wanted we could make you appear in a bad way which could damage your image severly [sic].”
The organization is protesting how groups are administered on Facebook and blaming Facebook for shutting down its fan page and accounts. Can you imagine how angry is this protesters?
How can social-networking site such as Facebook has loop holes? This shows the weakness of facebook and how they handle administration of its groups. Gosh, this is funny ..
When it comes to the Internet, there is nothing is secure. That is why no matter how secure is the site, program, application and etc .. Trust me, nothing will protect you against them if they really want it to happen.
Online Reference:
CNN.com, delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more [Online], Retrieved on 11th November 2009, URL: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/10/facebook.groups.hacked/index.html
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- November 10, 2009 / 7:04 pm
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