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MySpace Private Pictures Leak

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the if-you-don't-want-it-shared-don't-put-it-out-there dept.

Martin writes "We all heard about the MySpace vulnerability that allowed everyone to access pictures that have been set to private at MySpace. That vulnerability got closed down pretty fast. Unfortunately though (for MySpace) someone did use an automated script to run over 44,000 profiles that downloaded all private pictures which resulted in a 17 Gigabyte zip file with more than 560,000 pictures. The zip file is now showing up on popular torrent sites across the net."

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  1. Re:Trap! by MBGMorden · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ironic. It's little known that parents are explicitly allowed to have nude photos of their kids as long as they are obviously not being abused and the pictures are not distributed. It keeps all the parents with the pictures of babies in the bathtub from going to jail. Kinda stupid that your parent can have a picture of you naked but this girl gets charged with child porn charges for having pictures of HERSELF.

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  2. Re:Dueling compression algorithms by syukton · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Those multiple .RAR files most likely originated on Usenet, where corruption-resistance is very important (indeed, the .RAR files are often accompanied by .PAR parity files as well).

    The .torrent was probably just created from a usenet download, omitting the .PAR files (which are unnecessary when using Bittorrent).

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