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Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
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Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#62Can't you just use the downloader and download all your data? Edit: go to https://register.facebook.com/editaccount.php and then click the "learn more" link, then download. I think they email you when the download is compiled.
Doesn't include email addresses, which is what this whole kerfluffle is about.
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#63I wrote a similar tool two years ago: http://www.chrisfinke.com/2008/01/03/take-your-facebook-data... If my experience is any indication, the author will be receiving a takedown notice shortly.
They don't, however, seem to mention their names anywhere. If Facebook knows the name of the author, they can threaten to ban them from Facebook if they don't take it down (about the only leverage they have to exploit). However, to get a real name, they would need to get Google to reveal an IP address, and then the user's ISP to reveal account details - hardly a simple process. Google isn't going to hand over the IP…
Looks like it has indeed been taken down. The author should have seeded it on BitTorrent instead.
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#64Can't you just use the downloader and download all your data? Edit: go to https://register.facebook.com/editaccount.php and then click the "learn more" link, then download. I think they email you when the download is compiled.
Doesn't include email addresses, which is what this whole kerfluffle is about.
Ah, OK, thanks for the elucidation.
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I'd be curious what would happen if thousand of people used the tool rather a lone researcher. As we saw with Facebook's censorship and uncensorship of lamebook.com, their "terms" seem to be essentially "we'll do what we can get away with and back-off if enough people push back".
A couple of thousand does not a revolt make.
If things that begin small aren't worth doing, then nothing is worth doing.
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#66Apparently the extension made it to the "open sea" of torrents ;)
http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/255130489/fb-exporter?tab...
I have been waiting for this extension for soooo long. I can finally quit!
hashes of file fb-exporter.crx: MD5 d2ae04feae8df535025e572a8030a3ee sha1 ccc0a1213b6427cb019b36dbfacdc7770c6bec23
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't, however, seem to mention their names anywhere. If Facebook knows the name of the author, they can threaten to ban them from Facebook if they don't take it down (about the only leverage they have to exploit). However, to get a real name, they would need to get Google to reveal an IP address, and then the user's ISP to reveal account details - hardly a simple process. Google isn't going to hand over the IP…
Looks like it has indeed been taken down. The author should have seeded it on BitTorrent instead.
torrent is here http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/255130489/fb-exporter
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#68Looks like the project was just deleted from Google Code. I always get a "403 Forbidden" page each time I try to access the project page. Fortunately, the binary extension is still downloadable at this URL: fb-exporter.googlecode.com/files/fb-exporter.crx
Source code has a better value than the binary: I'm sure Facebook will deploy some counter-measures pretty soon, making the binary unusable.
Nobody's got the source code ? I tried to checked it out but I get 403's again...
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#69I'm trying to get all of my friends to use .tel domains. That way they own their data and I can discover all of their URIs dynamically (through DNS) from various apps. It doubles up as a web based "business card", which makes it a slightly easier sell.
How does the privacy features (i.e. restricting access to certain information to certain people) work if the information is embedded in DNS? (Also, how can you use "dig" or similar to extract the information from a *.tel address? Everything I try seems to return the same sort of information I'd get from any other domain.)
Privacy is achieved by encrypting records (1024-bit RSA, PKCS#1.5) and storing them using a sub-domain label known only to the counterpart (your friend). Keys are brokered by a service called TelFriends, and this is the only element of the system that's centralised. However, you only ever use it to make new friends, as your client is supposed to cache keys.
Of course, all of this complexity is hidden behind a pretty interface, so users don't have to worry :)
As for the dig command, perhaps your resolver (DSL router?) is buggy? Try Google's:
$ dig @8.8.8.8 andy.tel naptr (or 'txt' for my text records, and 'loc' for my location).
Hit me up on http://messaging.andy.tel if you want to chat about anything in more detail.
Re: Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts
#70The recently launched OSS project https://sourceforge.net/projects/themycubevault/ is looking for plugin developers to do exactly this kind of data export. I will try and port the JS extension to run there instead.