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2) Send a friend request to a user whose "private" friends you want to see.
3) Immediately withdraw your friend request.
4) See the "people you might know" list, voilà.
(at least it used to work for me about a year ago when i was looking for one girl)
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Well, the story made its way into the English speaking world via google translate, which is pretty notorious for dicking up subtle things like word order and direct vs indirect objects. She gave them the printout. She the printout them gave. They gave the printout her. The original article is now gone, but you can read the HN comments from the time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864427
The details of the story seem unlikely and it was probably sloppy journalism, but I haven't found anything besides speculation that claims it happened otherwise. It doesn't appear anything was lost in translation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864577 I think the likeliest case was that they searched her laptop, found an…
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The details of the story seem unlikely and it was probably sloppy journalism, but I haven't found anything besides speculation that claims it happened otherwise. It doesn't appear anything was lost in translation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864577 I think the likeliest case was that they searched her laptop, found an…
That's fair. But "Border agents can read your private messages" conveys a rather different idea than "Border agents can read tabs you leave open".