Does anyone have any idea how the Facebook accounts were taken from the owners? Scary.
dev make and app, user uses app by granting acces to basic infos, which every apps asks for. dev save details of each user in spreadsheet and sells it.
Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5
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#12And that's why I use the https://mypermissions.com plugin, so my email doesn't end up in places like this.
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#13Wow, five bucks.
As the saying goes, if you're not paying for the product, you're the product. The new twist here is that the product (i.e., your FaceBook info) is now being sold in the open market for only $5.00/1,000,000, or $0.000005 per person.
Prices normally go down only when supply exceeds demand, so the inescapable conclusion is that there's abundant oversupply of this product in the open market. Yikes!
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#14Wasn't there a massive dump of FB names paired with emails, released by lulzsec or some other 'Anonymous' organization last year? Could make this 'deal' quite useless.
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#15what's so surprising about this?
you can get list of valid emails and just run them through facebook search and you ll get names and profile URLs, both public information no matter what your security settings are.
nothing special about this
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#16Wow, five bucks. As the saying goes, if you're not paying for the product, you're the product. The new twist here is that the product (i.e., your FaceBook info) is now being sold in the open market for only $5.00/1,000,000, or $0.000005 per person. Prices normally go down only when supply exceeds demand, so the inescapable conclusion is that there's abundant oversupply of this product in the open market. Yikes!
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#17what's so surprising about this? you can get list of valid emails and just run them through facebook search and you ll get names and profile URLs, both public information no matter what your security settings are. nothing special about this
Where do you get a list of 1 million valid emails?
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#18I don't see this as a particularly big deal. Databases of email addresses have been available for cheap for a long time, as is evident from the amount of spam we all get. This is after all why spam blockers are so important.
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#19I 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.
This is FB we're talking about. They're not interested in any privacy awareness, that would only decrease the "engagement" and thus makes no sense to them.
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#20what's so surprising about this? you can get list of valid emails and just run them through facebook search and you ll get names and profile URLs, both public information no matter what your security settings are. nothing special about this
I suppose you'd get rate limited.