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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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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 e…
I 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
It's a free world. People should be allowed to say whatever they want on whatever medium they want (as long as it's not hate-speech etc.)
This could have been done a little more sophisticated. Now it seems nothing more than some basic text searches. For instance two people saying "Not Hungover AT ALL, I love these mornings" and "Hungover !" respectively are both in the hungover section. And in the doing drugs section there was one guy who was happy he actually quit.
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) ?
No. I viewed this on a browser where I'm not logged into Facebook.
The page doesn't display any info/statuses related to my fb profile or any of my fb friends. From my point of view it is just displaying random fb results obtained by keyword related searches performed against the fb public data accessible via fb API. As far as I am concerned and aware of nothing in my profile is public.
A great example that should remind people that it's probably best to assume that everything they say or do online (offline as well) is now (and forevermore) public. Assume that anything you say or do has the ability to be seen by anyone and everyone around the globe instantly - without any methods of recourse. The genie is out of the bottle. Hence one should adapt one's own behaviour and act accordingly (that doesn't…
I 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
> I can't believe people are still publicly posting stuff about their bosses. It's a free world. People should be allowed to say whatever they want on whatever medium they want (as long as it's not hate-speech etc.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 e…