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Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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post #3

So, what's the point?

Honestly I'm not sure. Facebook's crossdomain policy disallows access from external domains, so you can't load this from a random Flash or JS script.

Hm, I think you can still invoke it jsonp style and overload the Object constructor in older browsers though, right? This would not only tell you whether they were a FB employee, but perhaps more importantly, their facebook UID without needing them to agree to any OAuth access.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

#22
post #19
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that yid was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck. So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch."

So, uh, yid has been let go?

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Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I'm not sure. Facebook's crossdomain policy disallows access from external domains, so you can't load this from a random Flash or JS script.

Hm, I think you can still invoke it jsonp style and overload the Object constructor in older browsers though, right? This would not only tell you whether they were a FB employee, but perhaps more importantly, their facebook UID without needing them to agree to any OAuth access.

That only works if it's surrounded by parenthesies. A bare object literal is not syntactically valid JavaScript.

Re: Are you a Facebook employee?

#28

wow, I am the 49,200,124th user? we should see who can get the lowest score...

I'm < 50,000 ... I have old screen shots of thefacebook.com too somewhere. In fact, I have an outstanding friend request from the early days that I've never clicked on, just for fun. I think this was either 2004 or 2003.
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