Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent

[Swede]

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!


Here are the major companies that are downloading the torrent. A couple caveats to these. Just because a company is on the list, doesn't mean that it's a sanctioned download by the company itself to grab the user information for some purpose. It could easily just be some dude at the company who wanted to download the torrent himself to check it out. Also, the IP addresses assigned to a company might fluctuate (they usually don't, much, unless major companies change their connection to the internet, so it should be mostly accurate).

http://gizmodo.com/5599970/major-corporations-are-downloading-those-100-million-facebook-profiles-off-bittorrent?skyline=true&s=i

[Warpy]

1. The only one that leapt out at me as being truly sinister

is the "church" of $cientology. While I find it odd that Halliburton would want the names and addresses of people who were too dumb to secure that information, the rest of it looks like standard data mining for mail lists.