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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:Prone to prosecution? by Darkness404 · · Score: 4, Informative

    See the thing is the profiles were all public someone just made a web crawler to create it then put it up as a torrent download. No privacy was violated that wouldn't be with a normal search.

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  2. Re:needs control group by linzeal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try it at Intel, you will be walked out of the door in 30 minutes. What kind of IT department would expose the company to liabilities like that ?

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  3. Re:hmm...Church of Scientology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Scientology word for it is "Audit."