100 million Facebook user pages end up on a torrent site.

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100 million Facebook user pages end up on a torrent site.

The problem with security is that people have to understand before they can be secure. So what happens when Facebook provides better security measures, and yet people fail to use them?


100 million Facebook pages get scraped and hosted on a torrent site.

According to Thinq, the files (scraped by a man named Ron Bowes of Skull Security) contain the personal data includes the given names and URL of each user. Of course someone looking at that information can then glean a wealth of other items such as the ability to click through to that user’s friends, even if those profiles are non-searchable.

The interesting part? None of this is illegal.

100 million Facebook user pages end up on a torrent site.

 

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*UPDATE* - well more interesting article.

When it’s not killing office productivity across the whole of the developed world and acting as a springboard for murder, affairs and hilarious pranks, Facebook often gets it in the ear for its attitude towards its users’ privacy.

Security Consultant Ron Bowes has gotten on that bandwagon and generated a million column inches of free publicity for himself. He wrote a nifty script that scraped every publicly accessible Facebook profile, collating as it did all the data that was available.

Now that data is doing the rounds on torrent sites and the world waits with bated breath for another AOL Stalker kind of application and the many hours of fun that will be had from outing people’s curious personal beliefs or dubious connections.

100 Million Facebook Users Details Published