> compare:
>
> http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=john+adams&init=quick
>
> http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=stefan+magdalinski&init=quick

Stef - funny you should mention this. The Cambridge tech security
boffins at the Computer Labs wrote this post the other day that
casually mentioned they screenscraped, erm, 269 million entries in
order to obtain a list of names which "is the largest such dataset
ever assembled and may have many uses outside of security research,
which we are happy to provide it for."

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/03/04/evaluating-statistical-attacks-on-personal-knowledge-questions/

The ethics sort of boggles the mind, I don't know what to think.

Tom

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