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Re:Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full n... by greenwalls on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:08AM (#4687642)
Does anyone have any idea how the Facebook accounts were taken from the owners? Scary.
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Re:Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full n... by thomaslutz on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:11AM (#4687655)
What do you mean by "taken"? I guess the Facebook application just used the privileges the users provided to it to compile this list.
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Re:Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full n... by jvc26 on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:13AM (#4687664)
I don't think the accounts were 'taken', I thought he just had some of their data ...
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Re:Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full n... by duiker101 on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:30AM (#4687726)
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.
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