Reading the comments I understand that it grabs public facebook data if you are logged, right ? Since I am currently logged and can't see any of my data it means that my facebook profile isn't public (or at least the data this page fetches aren't public) ?
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#53Haha: Who's hungover?
Murray Heather Not Hungover AT ALL, I love these mornings!
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#54I can't believe people are still publicly posting stuff about their bosses. Surely there has been enough press coverage about people getting fired for fb/twitter antics
Most bosses do not have the time, wherewithal or care enough to do this. There is nothing wrong with people blowing of steam.
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#55I'm surprised there isn't a column for people who are reading Hacker News. This guy for example: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506
Funny thing is that when you try to post it on your facebook wall the preview shows your profile. But when somebody else clicks it it takes them to their profile
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#56I can't believe people are still publicly posting stuff about their bosses. Surely there has been enough press coverage about people getting fired for fb/twitter antics
Au contraire, regardless of whether or not it's wise to diss your boss online, the last thing we need more of is mass knee-jerk reactions to information over-reported by the press.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's kinda scary to see your own facebook profile being posted on HN out of nowhere... =\
Just to set any minds at ease after the initial shock: The link I posted is just a generic bad id link that ends up redirecting to your own Facebook profile if you are currently logged into Facebook. Anyone logged into Facebook will see their own profile. The link joering2 posted OTOH is actually to my Facebook profile. But: A) I don't really care (anything I put on my Facebook profile is assumed to be 1000% publical…
Interestingly, the string of numbers is a real user id. I presume it defaults to your own profile because facebook.com/profile.php goes to your own profile, and fb simply ignores the malformed parameters.
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#58I'm surprised there isn't a column for people who are reading Hacker News. This guy for example: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506
This is a neat trick and reminds me of MCI codes from the BBS days. Basically, for a lot of BBS software (and usually enabled by default) visitors to your BBS when posting in discussion threads could insert escape characters (like "%UN") which at runtime would be replaced with metadata related to the person viewing the post at that time. So, if I were to post "%UN's mother was a hamster and father smelled of elderber…
My favorite BBS hack was that on some standard RA configs, unless explicitly turned off by the sysop, you could save received messages to disk even if you were just a normal user. This meant that you could send a message to yourself, i.e. 'del . /q /s' (or whatever zapped your dos disk, I can't really remember.), and then save it to 'c:\autoexec.bat' ...
Other fun things where nailbombs, small .zip files that would expand to multiple gigs. When you uploaded those to early RA systems the virus scanner would attempt to unpack them and quickly fill up the entire disk, causing the BBS to grind to a halt.
Kids these days have no idea what they missed :3
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#59I'm surprised there isn't a column for people who are reading Hacker News. This guy for example: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506
I use PHP every day. I understand how this happens. I've known about this particular trick for years.
... My heart still stopped.
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#60Another interesting column: "Who's out of town?". I wonder how burglers use social networking.