[ale] 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site

[Robbie Honerkamp]

I saw some discussions about this yesterday on some other lists, and the 
consensus was that the torrent is pretty much just a list of users who 
have their profile set to be searchable and the URL to their profile. 
The torrent doesn't have any information such as addresses, DOB, etc.. 
nor can they be gotten from the user's profile URL unless they've set 
their profile to be public.

I haven't downloaded the torrent, so I could be wrong, but it seems 
likely to me that this is another example of the media running amok with 
a story they know little about. Skull Security's website is down right 
now, but I've attached an email from the Infowarrior list that excerpts 
the details from the page that talk about what's in the torrent.

Robbie



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