Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5

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Post by dbcooper » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 11:26 AM UTC

Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5
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Re: Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5

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Post by greenwalls » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:08 PM UTC

Does anyone have any idea how the Facebook accounts were taken from the owners? Scary.

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Post by thomaslutz » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:11 PM UTC

greenwalls wrote: post #2

Does anyone have any idea how the Facebook accounts were taken from the owners? Scary.

What do you mean by "taken"? I guess the Facebook application just used the privileges the users provided to it to compile this list.

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Post by tbassetto » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:12 PM UTC

I don't see how the fact that he's a Mozilla blogger is relevant.

The file contains "just" full name, e-mail and URL. Thieves got the information thanks to their Facebook apps (no idea of its name), it could happen with any third-party app.

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Post by pi18n » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:12 PM UTC

I think instead of having users agree to permissions on Facebook and Android apps, they should have to explicitly grant permissions to the app. Maybe by dragging an icon or something that represents "email address", "real name", and other concepts.

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Post by jvc26 » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:13 PM UTC

greenwalls wrote: post #2

Does anyone have any idea how the Facebook accounts were taken from the owners? Scary.

I don't think the accounts were 'taken', I thought he just had some of their data ...

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Post by moeffju » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:16 PM UTC

Here's what I think is the offer on gigbucks: http://gigbucks.com/Social-Marketing/26055/instantly-give-yo...

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Post by lysium » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:18 PM UTC

Maybe should have blurred out the edit line, too.

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Post by tathagatadg » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:20 PM UTC

Just curious, is this illegal? What happens if the seller didn't disclose the method in which he aggregated the data or says I just stood in a shopping mall and asked people to voluntarily disclose these details? (Sure he'll have a hard time proving that) ....

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Post by Fightback » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:30 PM UTC

I laugh at the censor fail. See selected field.