The brute force dating attack of a "math genius"
On Wire.com, Kevin Poulson wrote an interesting article about the Mathematician Chris McKinlay, who tried to - and finally found - a date on okcupid.
Unlike the majority of okcupid users, he wrote scripts to harvest the website with user data, then matched the user profiles with his own interests - and contacted them....
He then invited some of the women, who wrote back, on a date....after a few unsuccessful attempts, he even met a woman he even married (probably by now).
You can read the whole story here:
What I was wondering?
Did OkCupid sue him for financial compensation? Did any of the users report him as their "private" data was illegally copied to another server / pc ? (and might still kick around on a harddisk in his flat)
Or what that a viral marketing idea from OkCupid ?
If so, the viral marketing campaign really went viral - most sites picked up on this story.
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