Photo by aralbalkanMessage that complies with the data of 100 million users on Facebook, of course, with concern - especially when the data were then thrown into the file-sharing service BitTorrent unauthorized music, all major credit cards and odd little legal content.
The true story was a bit "weird. It was a security expert Ron Bowes of Canada, the data - 2.8GB download - a robot-script to extract information to create open access to the Facebook directory.
But all of this information is publicly available, because this figure is open to search engines and includes all the Facebook users who did not want to hide the profile search results.
Information in the account name Bowen, URL, profiles and contact details published - the names of friends and members ", although it has decided not to appear in search results.
Facebook disturbing, but the information must be collected in this way is not illegal. Rather, they should be carried out to people what the "General" and actually means that information there, you do not have anything to say about what happened to him to remember.
Also a debate on the transparency, and most understand the consequences of "open" it makes sense to adopt an opt-in "openness." If a popular place that will soon be a friend when the assimilation easier. But is the price.
So why Bowes and How?
I wanted to help, open-source project Ncrack, which showed that "brute-force login attacks. The data were collected, Facebook might be useful to other researchers, he thought, I've BitTorrent. Then I have downloaded hundreds times, and the Pirate Bay.
Interest Bowes original data from the follow-up of the most popular name, "says Ars Technica. Although there is no threat to Facebook users could be the basis for an automated management software cracks common user. Why Facebook is all over the world, making it more effective than the identification of areas, for example. Bowen is among the top three user jsmith 129 369 79 365 77 713, line Skhan ssmith
"As I thought more about it and talked to the people, I realized that fear is the issue of privacy," said Bowen post (hide) Blog. "I can not find the names of almost all appear on Facebook. Facebook is very pleased to announce that" [a] Nyon can not here, by using the privacy settings for research - but it helps a lot, because all the nerds (and download the torrent). "
Facebook has stressed that confidential information was compromised. "People are using Facebook and the right to share only what they want, with whom they want, when they want," he said in a statement that sounds rather passive said. "In this case, the people have agreed to disclose information, a researcher who has already brought in Google, Bing, other search engines, such as Facebook. When is the black side of the phone book available to empower people, a Meet the reasons why many people with Facebook.
wanted Bowes said he to publish on the issue of privacy "fear" the government used in this way, but even he was surprised at the response. How often it was done before all the construction, do not listen to us?
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