MySpace Private Profiles Aren’t That Private

Noone should upload pictures anywhere that they truly intend to keep private. When you upload your stuff to someone else’s servers, you are transferring ownership to them typically (its in the TOS).

To me, though, it is just common sense. Unfortunately, kids these days often don’t seem to have that. Hopefully they heed your warning!

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Absolutely Kyle! It definitely is common sense but people get the false sense of security with words like ‘private profile’ which is dangerous.

Thanks for keeping us updated on this one K. While I’m not a social networking user myself, this makes a nice change from all the reports of Facebook security leaks

Troy.. that’s true. I guess any of these popular social networking tools is going to face it’s own share of security leaks when people share so much of their personal information online. MySpace is still booming inspite of better alternatives and I know a few people personally who still use it.

Thanks for the news!

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You are welcome, Kyle. I am enjoying reading your Social Survey series and off to read the Facebook part.

I guess nothing is secure nowadays. Even i orkut , you can see anyone’s private photos by using scripts.

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Madhur, you are right. None is an exception!

K,

Great information and advice for those who use MySpace! (Apparently it turns out it isn’t really their space at all!)

Thanks for sounding the alarm!
Jeanne

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Jeanne, you are absolutely welcome! This kind of information unfortunately doesn’t trickle down to the regular users of MySpace. So I guess every bit of effort helps even if I reached just a couple.

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K,

Definitely! (By the way, I stumbled this.)

Jeanne

Jeanne, really appreciate it!

Just FYI, this trick won’t work if there profile is set to “private” only the profiles that are public. All this trick is doing is pulling down accessible information

Joe. thanks for bringing that up and sharing it with us.

I am a member of facebook and orkut. While orkut has a similar locked feature (which makes pictures accessible only to friends), it hasn’t been broken yet.

Thousands of orkut scraps circulate with a link to a script that would supposedly unlock pictures. Unfortunately, the script is just a javascript that replicates this scrap (kind of like writing on the wall in facebook) onto everyone in your friends list, and not unlocking anything

The script thus keeps spreading from scrapbook to scrapbook, since everyone wants to see locked stuff. You might want to check if the myspace unlock is something similar that does not really unlock, but keeps spreading by a malicious script running from it. Google pagerank is easy as long as you show up in results on top, but question is whether it works, and whether it poses a risk.

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It’s no big deal really because if you notice, if the person have the account set to private, the pictures won’t show up. It’s basically providing pictures from profiles that almost anyone can see even without this “service”.

I guess the only way this is useful is for those who have public profiles with a private folder. I haven’t tried it out yet, but most likely that’s how it works.

That is an amazing piece of information. Never would have thought about it. In my industry (I run a martial arts school) I run into myspace problems with kids all the time. Threats and such are always happening there. this just opens more possibilities for harassment.

And yes it’s nearly impossible to get kids not to post private things online. Unfortunately their priorities are out of whack.

I’ll stumble and digg this article. It’s a good one.

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As i states before, this service really doesn’t make private profiles public, but it may b only a matter of time before someone figures out how to do it. The internet is like a double edge sword, mainly because these it seems like our society can not live without it because of it’s benefits, but as for children, they are so vulnerable. It’s also the same as when older people (65+) learns how to use the internet. They fail to notice alot of scams and as a result they get taken advantage of very easily.

nothing will ever be private again, if your not posting picture or info about yourself on the web, somone will be, friends, family, random creepers, even some schools do. The world has just changed, people don’t think of these things and I don’t think they will in the futuer, I guess its just how life is these days.

true. the internet is leaky, and compromising pictures just have a way of getting around.

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This is easy for MySpace to exclude these private pages from the web.

Here’s how.

1. They just need to update the .htaccess file on their server to remove these private pages. This file would need to be kept current.

3. in the web code of these private pages, they insert a NO INDEX, NO FOLLOW tag. This will prevent the page from indexing.

This is Webmaster 101 stuff and Myspace should know better.

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Wow thanks for the heads up. Didn’t know someone could exploit it.

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I did not know that. thanks for the update

Yes, I already have heard that our Myspace profiles are not private.This issue trouble me a lot too.
Have subcribed to your blog as I just like the look and feel of it. Awesome job!
Keep up your work!

MySpace is still booming inspite of better alternatives and I know a few people personally who still use it.

This is the only working Myspace private profile viewer that will actually display a private profile. Many others have claimed they can, but they don’t have the required software to actually operate a private Myspace profile viewer.

these gaps in these social networks needs to be covered ASAP, due to the fact myspace and facebook are the biggest social networks around it’s weird they the security quality is poor.
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that site is a fake!

i typed in my friend id and it displayed pictures that are not mine,
it doest work at all so theres no holes in myspace security that are obvious. especially something titled ‘myspace private profiles’
they would find that in an instant and fix it.

myspaceprivateprofile DOESNT work! i tried my friendid which is private and it said PICTURES: 0 and i have pictures. i tried a friends whose isnt private and hers worked but again i stress her profile is NOT PRIVATE. it doesnt work at all.

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