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They never asked me to keep quiet about it, and they've been willing to comment about it too, eg http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18721-data-sifted-from-f

They never asked me to keep quiet about it, and they've been willing to comment about it too, eg http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18721-data-sifted-from-facebook-wiped-after-legal-threats.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18721-data-sifted-from... I'd imagine they want to deter people from following in my footsteps, so publicizing their actions serves as a warning.

jrockway 17y ago
I'd imagine they want to deter people from following in my footsteps, so publicizing their actions serves as a warning. If anything, I'm encouraged to start a publicly-available database based on crawling Facebook. Don't associate your name with it, crawl from your Ipredator account, and make sure your data is spread far and wide. Then they can sue the Entire Internet like the music companies are having so much success with. Information wants to be free. (Also, what's the worst that could happen? You get sued, and Facebook gets a few thousand bucks from your savings account and your used mattress? OH NOES.)
- Frazzydee 17y ago
  Even if you get sued, how would they know it's you? ie. how would they know who to serve a lawsuit to? By the time they get a court order to take the data down, if they even bother, people will have already distributed it, and it'll be another 09:f9:11:02-type fiasco. I hope he releases the code he used, although I wouldn't really blame him if he doesn't.
  - dmn001 17y ago
    The open source php for the google profiler is in a link on the article, very easy to modify if you wanted to do the same thing.
- pbiggar 17y ago
  > Information wants to be free. I think the full quote is something like "Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive". As I recall, it was about the dichotomy between the fact that you could copy bits for free, and that information was very valuable.
  - jrockway 17y ago
    I thought it meant that Mr. Information was locked in a dungeon, yelling "Hellooooo? Can anyone hear me!???" to any passerby inside the walled garden. He wants to be free. He wants you to free him!

jrockway 17y ago

I'd imagine they want to deter people from following in my footsteps, so publicizing their actions serves as a warning. If anything, I'm encouraged to start a publicly-available database based on crawling Facebook. Don't associate your name with it, crawl from your Ipredator account, and make sure your data is spread far and wide. Then they can sue the Entire Internet like the music companies are having so much success with. Information wants to be free. (Also, what's the worst that could happen? You get sued, and Facebook gets a few thousand bucks from your savings account and your used mattress? OH NOES.)

Frazzydee 17y ago
Even if you get sued, how would they know it's you? ie. how would they know who to serve a lawsuit to? By the time they get a court order to take the data down, if they even bother, people will have already distributed it, and it'll be another 09:f9:11:02-type fiasco. I hope he releases the code he used, although I wouldn't really blame him if he doesn't.
- dmn001 17y ago
  The open source php for the google profiler is in a link on the article, very easy to modify if you wanted to do the same thing.
pbiggar 17y ago
> Information wants to be free. I think the full quote is something like "Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive". As I recall, it was about the dichotomy between the fact that you could copy bits for free, and that information was very valuable.
- jrockway 17y ago
  I thought it meant that Mr. Information was locked in a dungeon, yelling "Hellooooo? Can anyone hear me!???" to any passerby inside the walled garden. He wants to be free. He wants you to free him!