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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. Privacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't understand why anyone would put anything up on MySpace that they don't want others seeing. If it is that private, don't store it on MySpace. You'll have to excuse me, I'm on my way to go download the file!

  2. I'll wait by Apreche · · Score: 1, Redundant

    No reason to download 17 gigs. Just wait for someone to filter out the non-pr0n and make a "greatest hits" torrent.

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  3. Re:A 17Gb zip??? by jonnythan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's 15 files, each slightly over 1GB.

  4. Re:Dueling compression algorithms by shiftless · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uh, maybe to put them all into one file instead of 550,000 individual files?

  5. Re:Dueling compression algorithms by Dragonshed · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Have you ever defragmented a harddrive after copying around 1 million small files?

  6. ZIP is a container by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You don't need to have compression to have a ZIP file, it is just a convenient way of storing a bunch of files together. PK3 files from Quake 3 engine games are just ZIP files with no compression, for example. It's kinda like a TAR file in UNIX, but TAR isn't popular in the Windows world. Windows has native ZIP support, though.

  7. Re:A 17Gb zip??? by jandrese · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As other people have pointed out, it's a bunch of 1GB zip files. A lot of zip programs will actually crap themselves if you give them a zip file over 2GB.

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  8. Re:You know what to do... by jollyreaper · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah. Good grief, just what I need - 17Gb of pictures of other peoples cats. It'll go nicely with the 17 gigs you have of your own.
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