Given that the dump is straight mySQL dumps, nicely including geolocation data, emails, IP addresses, birth dates, and so on, I fully expect that at this very moment there are people loading servers and building search apps that will allow you to map a location or search corporate IP spaces, etc. It is inevitable, however gray the legalities are. These services are going to start appearing tomorrow with certainty, and they're going to get attention.
And we know already that there is a lot of confirmed data in there. At least some of the data is unequivocally true, and the data in this latest release feels very organic.
Denial is a powerful thing, and at this point there are people who still think the genie can be put back in the bottle. I'm just being rational about how these things always go. Quite aside from the inevitable, very quickly built search apps, we'll have infographics galore about the population set of users.
And we know already that there is a lot of confirmed data in there. At least some of the data is unequivocally true, and the data in this latest release feels very organic.