MySpace Private Pictures Leak

Martin writes "We all heard about the MySpace vulnerability that allowed everyone to access pictures that have been set to private at MySpace. That vulnerability got closed down pretty fast. Unfortunately though (for MySpace) someone did use an automated script to run over 44,000 profiles that downloaded all private pictures which resulted in a 17 Gigabyte zip file with more than 560,000 pictures. The zip file is now showing up on popular torrent sites across the net."

You know what to do...

fetch! [thepiratebay.org]

Trap!

No way would I touch that torrent.. all it takes is one underage myspace kid to have posted one nipple.. cue child pornography charges/public outcry/p2p filtering mandated/end game. It's the wet-dream of the **AA crowd.

Re:Trap!

Actually, I think this is more of a threat to myspace itself. After all, they were hosting all of these pictures... when people discover how much kidporn is stored on myspace (I'm sure there's a significant amount of it), THEN there will be a public outcry, and no one is going to care about the people who downloaded the leaked photos. The backlash will be against myspace itself, by the "think of the children!" nutjobs.

Figures... and they just put further measures in place to attempt to "protect" children from themselves. Oh well, I have a hard time feeling sorry for myspace since (a) it's myspace and (b) it's owned by News Corp.

Re:Trap!

Actually, I think this is more of a threat to myspace itself. After all, they were hosting all of these pictures... when people discover how much kidporn is stored on myspace (I'm sure there's a significant amount of it), THEN there will be a public outcry, and no one is going to care about the people who downloaded the leaked photos. The backlash will be against myspace itself, by the "think of the children!" nutjobs.

Figures... and they just put further measures in place to attempt to "protect" children from themselves. Oh well, I have a hard time feeling sorry for myspace since (a) it's myspace and (b) it's owned by News Corp.

This does bring up the interesting question though, of how one deals with kidporn that's being posted by the kids in the pictures. Obviously the nutjubs are going to go after whatever company is doing the hosting, but unless I'm missing something, if they're not aware of the content then all they have to do is make a good faith effort to delete anything they find, much like the case with copyright violations. Any legal experts on the laws concerned here no for sure what sort of issues this brings up?

Re:Trap!

This does bring up the interesting question though, of how one deals with kidporn that's being posted by the kids in the pictures.

You charge the perpetrator with child abuse and with making and distributing indecent images of a minor. And you try them as an adult just for the glorious irony.

Re:You know what to do...

My dog only plays fetch when I throw her sticks... this would be like throwing a sequoia log!

Script to upload them to HotOrNot

Somebody is going to write it.

Re:You know what to do...

Are these divided up and tagged as to the myspace user profile they originated from?

Who cares? Wake me up when somebody offers up the "director's cut" of this torrent, ie only the really goofy and naked pics.

Re:You know what to do...

Yeah. Good grief, just what I need - 17Gb of pictures of other peoples cats.

On the plus side

Yeah. Good grief, just what I need - 17Gb of pictures of other peoples cats.

But on the plus side, you could head over to Fark and be a LOLCAT GOD.

Re:You know what to do...

Yeah. Good grief, just what I need - 17Gb of pictures of other peoples cats.

But, you admit you've already got 17Gb of pictures of your own cat? :-P

Cheers

Re:You know what to do...

If you read the wired interview, it says:

DMaul: The script that I wrote uses the myspaceprivateprofile.com interface to find the images. Therefore, it uses the same criteria. From my own testing, it appeared that myspaceprivateprofile.com did not return public images from public profiles. It only returned public images from private profiles. It did not return private images from either public or private profiles.

So ... I'm guessing the really good stuff isn't there.

It's a diversion..

It's p2p diversion... It was the RIAA. Brittney Spears or Brittney next door? Curiosity and perversion are certainly more powerful than greed.

Re:It's a diversion..

Where's my -1, Paranoid Conspiracy Theory moderation?

Solution:

Ask 'Who cares?'
Then ask 'why?'
Then ask 'so?'
Then keep asking 'so?' until you realize it's not that big of a deal.
Problem solved.

Re:Solution:

Ask 'Who cares?'

Um, Anybody concerned with internet privacy along with everybody who had a myspace account with pictures posted privately they did not intend the public to see.

Then ask 'why?'

Because this has huge implications for online security.

Then ask 'so?'

So, something like this that is potentially damaging should have had much better security measures against it.

Then keep asking 'so?' until you realize it's not that big of a deal.

I'm asking... it's still a big deal

Problem solved.

I think not.

Re:Solution:

So?

Re:Solution:

something like this that is potentially damaging should have had much better security measures against it.

Ummm, if you store potentially damaging photos on a third-party web site that is not intended to be a secure repository, why would you expect high security?

Because this has huge implications for online security.

Really? I think it just shows that MySpace is not (nor is it intended to be) a high security repository.

Re:One of the first rules on the internet?

"I thought one of the first rules on the internet was that anything you put out there can fall into the wrong hands / become public?"

No, the first rule of the internet is we don't talk about the internet.

Oh crap...

Maybe it's just me...

I personally have better things to do than waste 17gb of space -- and a large amount of time -- looking through other people's pictures.

Slight Tweak: Myspace Privates Leak, Pictures!

Title says it all...

Private?

I understand the general idea of privacy...but to expect any sort of privacy by putting your pictures online onto a server out of your control isn't exactly the smartest thing to do. I say if you've voluntarily uploaded it on one of the social networks, it can't be THAT private.

I know, I know, the myspace demographic doesn't know any better.

never underestimate

the power of bored horny teenaged males

Re:4chan is gonna have a field day with this...

I thought everyone on 4chan was an angsty teenager with a real reason to cry, being that no human woman will ever touch them.

Re:4chan is gonna have a field day with this...

I thought everyone on 4chan was an angsty teenager with a real reason to cry, being that no human woman will ever touch them.

Funny, a quick browsing of 4chan leads me to believe most everyone on 4chan is really a collection of cleverly written troll bots. They certainly don't seem capable of passing a turing test. You know, that would be a great experiment. Write a bot that posts random images out of a shared folder with appropriate descriptive comments, and randomly replies to other posts from a database of oft used memes and see how long before someone notices it's actually a bot. My money is on at least 2 months.