Someone is spamming the hack out of Facebook

Facebook spam, facebook hacked

[dusky]

I am sure a lot of webmasters might have noticed the user agent robot on their logs today with similar links (<snip>) which leads to publicly available mega list of facebook account holders email addresses, I am sure this is against their TOS. For one, it's against their privacy statement, two, whoever is sending thousands of robot requests and leaving these links for webmasters to follow is also wrong, even though it appears to be harmless fun.

I wrote to them, so they probably will delete all the thousands of freebee available to harvest email addresses of their members. However, I made a screenshot and downloaded all the pages as proof of their incompetence, If I were a spammer, I have thousands of emails which I could very easily make a mail shot and press send, undoubtedly, others would've have done so by now already.

Mods! The link is to the first page of the thousands of addresses, I had to post it, how could one prove the point any other way!

What a Joke!

[edited by: bill at 2:55 am (utc) on Oct. 23, 2009]
[edit reason] let's not link there [/edit]

[dusky]

Even if those people are consenting to giving out their email addresses publicly like that for a fun game, surely the webmasters at FB should know better not to allow misinformed Internet newbies do certain things that might harm their privacy.