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100M Facebook Profiles Now Available For Download Emily Price, PC World <http://www.pcworld.com/> Jul 28, 2010 6:09 pm One hundred million Facebook user profiles containing personal information such as e-mail addresses and phone numbers, are now available as a 2.8GB torrent download <http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887>. Ron Bowes of Skull Security <http://www.skullsecurity.org/> created the torrent using a Web crawler program, harvesting data from public profiles of users who have chosen not to change their privacy settings. The file contains information for 1 in every 5 Facebook users, all those who are currently listed in the Facebook open access directory<http://www.facebook.com/directory/>. Nothing is illegal about the torrent, because it simply uses data that is available to the public. Even those who have secured their own Facebook page may not be completely out of the clear. In a statement on his website Bowes said: More at: http://www.pcworld.com/article/202126/100m_facebook_profiles_now_available_for_download.html?tk=nl_wbx_h_crawl1 -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
