The Facebook Data Torrent Debacle: Q&A

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Security concerns over Facebook have been raised yet again after a security consultant collected the names and profile URLs for 171 million Facebook accounts from publicly available information. The consultant, Ron Bowes, then uploaded the data as a torrent file allowing anyone with a computer connection to download the data.

Simon Davies a representative of the U.K.-based privacy watchdog Privacy International accused Facebook of negligence over the data mining technique, according to the BBC. Facebook, however, told the British news service that Bowes actions haven't exposed anything new since all the information Bowes collected was already public.

So what are the security risks? Should you be concerned? Let's take a look.....

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I'm downloading this file "as we speak"... I'm very curious to see if not only MY information, but possibly if anybody else I know has had their Facebook information hijacked and readily available to downloaded.... not only that, but I'd like to know exactly WHAT information is within.

I'm not sure if this constitutes as "doc dropping", cause ANYBODY after reading this article could just go to the PirateBay and type in the search bar "facebook" and find that it's the number one seeded torrent available... but here's the link if you're interested...

http://thepiratebay.org/search/facebook/0/7/0
(oh and Phantom, being that my vote goes out to you as far as becoming the next DT admin, please verify if this would be considered dropping docs, and I'll gladly remove the link.)