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AOL Releases Search Logs of 657,427 Users
An anonymous reader writes "AOL has released the search logs of over 650,000 users for research purposes. This looks like it may become a public relations disaster for AOL, as well as a privacy nightmare for the users involved as Michael Arrington of TechCrunch notes: "AOL has released very private data about its users without their permission. While the AOL username has been changed to a random ID number, the ability to analyze all searches by a single user will often lead people to easily determine who the user is, and what they are up to. The data includes personal names, addresses, social security numbers and everything else someone might type into a search box." This is also being covered on The Paradigm Shift and Oh My News."
fantomas adds " Looks like they've just taken it down but it's still available on The Pirate Bay; not sure why but some of the academic researchers are going crazy musing the ethical aspects of letting the world know who's searching for how to kill their wives ..."
Update: 08/07 21:32 GMT by T : amromousa writes "AOL is now apologizing for the release ..., calling it a "screw-up," which they're upset and angry about."
AOL users! ;)
You insentive clod! The end of the world is a geographic location! Not everyone has been sold on the junk science of the round earth!
Where were you when the voynix came?
I hope that Google will now mark aol.com as an unsafe website to visit.
(So, how many wives are either not going to be home tonight, or are going to fix hubby his very favorite dish?)
I bet the guy works for Rockstar games and is simply researching their next big hit. "Slap the Ho!" Where you put up with yo biotches shit till...
Me too.
You keep making oblique references to steak and cheese. I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.
(If it's 17556639's favorite dish, maybe his wife is looking forward to death.)
657,437 searches for "how to cancel AOL"
But I thought AOL was the Internet? Now I'm confused..
FTA:
Mmmmmm. . . Steak and cheese. . .
What?
Well, the thought never occured to me, but I just did it. If that number is publicly accessible on the web, I want to know about it.
:-)
Unfortunately, though, Google thought I was entering a subtraction problem. The answer was -966. Now go theft my ID
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
13455621 how to fucking bury someone
13455621 funky gibbon
13455621 chair repairs seattle
13455621 addams family
13455621 OSS cancer
13455621 FUD spreading
You should be logging the ips downloading the file and leak that in a few days...
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
I know your SSN.
It's 000-00-0966!
My ZooLoo
...there are a lot of stories and sites that are just supposed to be obviously humorous, not actually to be a DYI guide to the subject in their title.
"A Do-Yourself-In guide"? I thought he was looking for help with murder, not suicide.
I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.