[Problem #2] Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles

[calvin&hobbs]

Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested.

Reader Clint discovered that all you had to do is use something like Peer Block, which grabs the IPs of the other users also downloading the torrent and identifies which company or university or organization they belong to. You can check this yourself by hopping on the torrent and doing the same thing.

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).

A.C. Nielsen
Agilent Technologies
Apple
AT&T - Possible Macrovision
Baker & McKenzie
BBC
Bertelsmann Media
Boeing
Church of Scientology
Cisco Systems
Cox Enterprises
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deutsche Telekom
Disney
dIssArrAy*
Duracell
Ernst & Young
Fujitsu
Goldman Sachs
Halliburton
HBO & Company
Hilton Hospitality
Hitachi
HP
IBM
Intel
Intuit
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lockheed-Martin Corp
Lucasfilm
Lucent
Lucent Technologies
Matsu****a Electric Industrial Co
Mcafee
MetLife
Mitsubishi
Motorola
Northrop Grumman
Novell
Nvidia
O'Melveny & Myers
Oracle Corp
Pepsi Cola
Procter and Gamble
Random House
Raytheon
Road Runner RRWE
Seagate
Sega
Siemens AG
SONY CORPORATION
Sprint
Sun Microsystems
Symantec
The Hague
Time Warner Telecom
Turner Broadcasting system
Ubisoft Entertainment
Unisys
United Nations
Univision
USPS
Viacom
Vodafone
Wells Fargo
Xerox PARC

Illustration by Sam Spratt. Check out Sam's portfolio and become a fan of his Facebook Artist's Page.

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*On request of DiSSaRRaY

[VirtualForce]

lol, love the illustration! Makes me think of google might be turning into. About facebook, I am something astonished what personal details ppl put on facebook. I think sharing very personal information on facebook is just wrong.

[Pollynator]

Disney

OMFG!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[VirtualForce]

lol and Lockheed-Martin Corp! They are going to bomb your facebooking ass!!!

[wrath]

Lucasfilm

Even worse
LOL if they torrented Star Wars movies

[IonFlux]

This is wrong in so many ways.

Church of Scientology. Need I say more.

Basically, we are screwed.

[DiSSaRRaY]

Let me jump on the band-wagon and download it as well lol...

[calvin&hobbs]

There we ago, I will add you to the list. Everybody Diss also has all the FB profiles.

[DiSSaRRaY]

There we ago, I will add you to the list. Everybody Diss also has all the FB profiles.

I don't see my name yet! I also want to be rated with all the major corporations
I want to feel special. Like the warm feeling when you wet yourself.

[TitanKing]

The guy who figured how to get the company names turned the hunters into the hunted... awsome