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100 million Facebook users (download torrent)
- petrilli 16y agoBefore people get too bent out of shape/excited, the data within the files is just people's names and counts as well as the URL to their profile. All of these profiles were already public.
- jimmyrcom 16y agoStill means there'll be more "data entry" job request in outsourcing forums requiring indians to enter friend requesting captchas all day. Oh and more friend requests from people that will send you spam every week.
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoBut if you went and got it from Facebook, I could alter my settings and make it go away. The torrent is forever. However, to believe what I just said is completely naive. If you screw up and make something public, the likelihood that it is already forever somewhere is close enough to 100% that you should just expect it.
- coderdude 16y agoThe URL to your profile and your name are always public information on Facebook, regardless of what settings you tweak. All this torrent supplies is your name and your URL.
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- Unseelie 16y agoFacebook won't allow this link to be posted in the feed. Its considered abusive.
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- equark 16y agoThis is basically the business model of RapLeaf.
- sp332 16y agoYou can also get Google profile URLs for 16,256,271 users from the top post in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537968 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537968
- henning 16y agoI don't know if you've ever tried, but Google generally won't actually let you look through millions of results. It also eventually presents you with a CAPTCHA to solve if it detects that you're scraping its SERPs.
- Anon84 16y agoIf this included friend information it would be much more interesting. As it stands, it's just a proof of concept.
- pinksoda 16y agoYou could gather friend information easily. The info is there, this guy just didn't collect it.
- biturd 16y agoWhat is the background on this file? What data is in it, where and how was it leaked, why does it exist, why do FaceBook users need to be concerned, or not?
- llaxsll 16y agoThis has more info : http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/29/facebook-hacker-all-i-did-was-compile-publicly-available-information/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/29/facebook-hacker-all-i-did-w...
- byrneseyeview 16y agoAny 1337 hackers interested in pulling off the same heist on LinkedIn are invited to peruse the list at this notorious Warez site: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:linkedin.com/in/ http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
- AlexMuir 16y agoFacebook's fuckup is not to have some sort of anti-scraping system running. If they'd limited the number of public-facing profile views to 100 a day per IP address then this would have taken 41,666 days for one IP address (obviously you'd use more, but it illustrates the point).
- qq66 16y agoAnd many college students would be blocked from Facebook... even if you increased the number to 1000 :)
- AlexMuir 16y agoFb could up the limit for an ip based on the number of users logging in from that location. Plus I'm only thinking the public facing non-friend profile views.
- uxp 16y agoIt wouldn't solve the entire problem, but resolving the IP address to its assigned DNS name could also help. Anything coming from .edu could be exempt, but 100 full hits an hour from *-dhcp.mylocalisp.com could be flagged for abuse.
- necubi 16y agoDo many colleges use NAT? Every college whose network I've been on gives external IPs to each network device.
- simoncion 16y agoThe University of Alabama in Huntsville uses NAT for the folks who use its wireless network, or the network in the dorms; everyone on those networks gets a 10/8 address. Additionally, UAH is connected to I2, but doesn't provide any IPV6 connectivity for those who use its I1 connection. :/
- fmora 16y agoI guet a malware warning when visiting the site.
- korch 16y agoWhile this is cool, I'd be truly impressed if it was expanded to all 500 million Facebook users, and included all the friend graphs. Basically a fully scraped copy of Facebook's data, kept up to date, and available for free via Bit Torrent. I suppose the best shot at doing that would be using a bot-net.
- benologist 16y agoThis is supposedly everyone with publicly searchable profiles so I'd be truly impressed if 329 million people adjusted their settings, and not at all surprised if the 500 million figure did something cute like classify visitors as users, eg: digg and their "40 million users" of which 0.0047% liked the current most popular story.
- whatusername 16y agoHow do you "visit" facebook? You get a login page.
- benologist 16y agoLots of pages and even apps don't require you to login.
- quizbiz 16y agoWhat is this useful for?
- noongajaggle 16y agoI guess it's useful for tracking people who might have deleted their facebook account.
- seanlinmt 16y agoI haven't looked at what's in the leaked data but is it some guy just incrementing id numbers and getting the JSON result via http://graph.facebook.com/someidnumber http://graph.facebook.com/someidnumber ? http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api
- jacquesm 16y agoNow for someone that scrapes the friend graph and turns it into a torrent. That might be more useful.
- svag 16y agoWhat's the difference of this torrent with this one ... http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=site%3Afacebook.com%2Fdirectory%2Fpeople%2F&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=4da16c650c5b86c8 http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=site%3Afacebook.com%2Fd...
- svag 16y ago... and some profiles in HN are searchable... http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com%2Fuser%3Fid%3D&aq=&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=4da16c650c5b86c8 http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator...
- kn0wl3dgep0w3r 16y agoI would like to offer a bounty to the first capable script author who can take this 'proof of concept' and correlate names with email addresses and/or telephone numbers.