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Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files?

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-just-santa dept.

eldavojohn writes "Gizmodo's got an interesting scoop on a list of IPs acquired from Peer Block revealing who is downloading the Facebook user data torrented this week: Apple, the Church of Scientology, Disney, Intel, IBM and several major government contractors just to name a few. The article notes that this doesn't mean it's sanctioned by these companies or even known to be happening, but the IP addresses of requests coming to one of the users' machines match to lists of IP blocks for each company."

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  1. Re:hmm...Church of Scientology by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder what they want with Facebook info? I hope it isn't to harass people.

    I'm sure they have a more palatable word for it. Perhaps "save", "convert", "assist", etc.

  2. Tormented by kamukwam · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is a tormented Facebook file??

  3. Re:Program limitations by crow_t_robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you really manage a database that large in Excel? Does your computer shit parts of its motherboard out of its optical disk drive every time you open the file?

  4. Re:hmmm by pandrijeczko · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, they are completely different - one is a bunch of rich religious zealots trying to force their opinions on everyone else, the other was founded by L. Ron Hubbard.

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