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Tomorrow, Microsoft will be going live with its Xbox Developer Direct, in which the console maker is said to be showing off 4 titles in total – including DOOM: The Dark Ages and South of Midnight. According to one insider, Microsoft is keeping its cards close to its chest, with “a few other surprises” said to be announced during the event...

4 comments

  1. The BBC are well known for cock ups like this 🙂 that said, thanks for letting me know as I missed it on the BBC website and will now go and get the torrent myself 🙂

  2. My wife is freaking out about this, god knows who will get their hands on this information. Facebook should be sued for this privacy breach

  3. Super misleading article. For one thing, all the data in that torrent is already available in the public domain; it’s essentially a big list of names or whatever people have on their public profiles, nothing more. Nothing from people’s public profiles. It’s the same as searching their name on Facebook or Google, since Google indexes Facebook.

    For another, saying that a problem arises because it’s reported by a news agency is foolish. If the BBC hadn’t reported it, it would have spread throughout the internet somehow. Nothing stays secret anymore because of that, and ignorance of the problem doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem.

  4. @Nick: Putting a story on major media definitely increases the propogation of the data being discussed (as anyone who downloaded the BNP’s member’s list will testify).
    When you say it’s misleading and focus on the fact that the data is already in the public domain, maybe you missed this line, “People who use computers should not really expect privacy” 🙂

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