Hackers threatening facebook?

[Ken]

"The programmer subculture of hackers disassociates from the mass media's pejorative use of the word 'hacker' referring to computer security, and usually prefer the term 'cracker' for that meaning. "

"Members of the media sometimes seem unaware of the distinction, grouping legitimate "hackers" such as Linus Torvalds and Steve Wozniak along with criminal "crackers"."

"Others prefer to follow common popular usage, arguing that the positive form is confusing and unlikely to become widespread in the general public. A minority still stubbornly use the term in both original senses despite the controversy, leaving context to clarify (or leave ambiguous) which meaning is intended. It is noteworthy, however, that the positive definition of hacker was widely used as the predominant form for many years before the negative definition was popularized. "Hacker" can therefore be seen as a shibboleth, identifying those who use the technically-oriented sense (as opposed to the exclusively intrusion-oriented sense) as members of the computing community."


So you are wondering if the loss of Facebook would have a major impact, then yes. Many businesses are now providing links for it, since it is a great platform for marketing.
It can also be considered a instant visual email client that does not require a seperate email client such as the defunct Outlook Express. It has so many features that I only provided a single example

Thus you are referring to "crackers" that attempt to break security, and "phreakers" do teleco/cell...