Comments on: MySpace Private Profiles Aren’t That Private

By: kg

kg — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:36:02 +0000

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.

By: Johnnie@Auto Insurance

Johnnie@Auto Insurance — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:15:42 +0000

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.

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By: phil@belt buckles

phil@belt buckles — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:26:19 +0000

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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By: Johnnie@Auto Insurance Quotes

Johnnie@Auto Insurance Quotes — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:24:25 +0000

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.

By: cloud9ine

cloud9ine — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:41:56 +0000

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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By: K

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:55:58 +0000

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

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:39:55 +0000

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

By: K

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:19:39 +0000

Jeanne, really appreciate it!

By: Jeanne Dininni

Jeanne Dininni — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:10:01 +0000

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

Jeanne

By: K

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:28:45 +0000

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. K's last blog post..ShanKri-la Gets a Makeover

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Links of the Week Feb 1st, 2008 | .eduGuru — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:18:17 +0000

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By: Jeanne Dininni

Jeanne Dininni — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:47:27 +0000

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

By: K

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:07:16 +0000

Madhur, you are right. None is an exception!

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:54:52 +0000

I guess nothing is secure nowadays. Even i orkut , you can see anyone's private photos by using scripts. Madhur Kapoor's last blog post..The Digs’em wordpress theme by Garry Conn

By: K

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:58:05 +0000

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

By: Kyle James

Kyle James — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:51:32 +0000

Thanks for the news! Kyle James's last blog post..Social Survey: Facebook

By: K

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:41:06 +0000

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.

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:16:33 +0000

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

By: K

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:05:50 +0000

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