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matthijs
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Post by matthijs »

astions wrote:I see some lawsuits on the horizon. I can't imagine what AOL was thinking by posting that.
Yes. But I wonder how easy it will be to prove AOL crossed the borders/law. They did replace the names of their users by a number. So the data was supposed to be anonymous.

However, as is also said in the article, it will not be difficult to find out the identity of many by the searches they made. Smart analysts will add A+B+C. And besides that, how many people search for their own name out of curiosity?
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panic!
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Post by panic! »

AOL user+PHP developer=Oxymoron.

unless you're at your mum's house checking your mail.

edit: in which case you're a bad son/daughter and you should have advised her better...(just kidding)
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Paradigm Shift Blog wrote:There are hundreds of searches from people looking to kill themselves and even more scary are searches from users that seem to be looking to commit murder.

Check out the search history for user 17556639, most recent search is at the bottom of the list.. Does this look like the search history of a user wanting to do something bad?

17556639 how to kill your wife
17556639 how to kill your wife
17556639 wife killer
17556639 how to kill a wife
17556639 poop
17556639 dead people
17556639 pictures of dead people
17556639 killed people
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 murder photo
17556639 steak and cheese
17556639 photo of death
17556639 photo of death
17556639 death
17556639 dead people photos
17556639 photo of dead people
17556639 http://www.murderdpeople.com
17556639 decapatated photos
17556639 decapatated photos
17556639 car crashes3
17556639 car crashes3
17556639 car crash photo
8O
matthijs
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Post by matthijs »

Sorry, I didn't mean to really murder my wife. Honest! And i've been getting pro treatment since then, so I'm ok now. Kind of :wink:
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Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

That's insane.

I'm downloading and analyzing some of the data when I get home..
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Post by shiznatix »

i tried to take a look at it but when i tried to open a 212mgb text file my computer almost caught fire.
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Luke
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Post by Luke »

d11wtq wrote:
Paradigm Shift Blog wrote:There are hundreds of searches from people looking to kill themselves and even more scary are searches from users that seem to be looking to commit murder.

Check out the search history for user 17556639, most recent search is at the bottom of the list.. Does this look like the search history of a user wanting to do something bad?

17556639 how to kill your wife
17556639 how to kill your wife
17556639 wife killer
17556639 how to kill a wife
17556639 poop
17556639 dead people
17556639 pictures of dead people
17556639 killed people
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 murder photo
17556639 steak and cheese
17556639 photo of death
17556639 photo of death
17556639 death
17556639 dead people photos
17556639 photo of dead people
17556639 http://www.murderdpeople.com
17556639 decapatated photos
17556639 decapatated photos
17556639 car crashes3
17556639 car crashes3
17556639 car crash photo
8O
Looks more like some moron who likes pictures of dead people (steak and cheese) People always used to go to that site at my highschool. I could never figure out why... it's demented.
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Post by hawleyjr »

Just did a search of the data for 'devnetwork'

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USER ID	SEARCH	DATE TIME	SEARCH RANK	CLICK URL
10570187	milimeter grid	2006-04-26 20:02:28	8	http://forums.devnetwork.net
23873886	-					2006-05-24 20:59:31	3	http://forums.devnetwork.net
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