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I would like to add my voice to the chorus of those opposed to Frienditto.

zannechaos has some good information about this tool and its creators. Given that I write many friendslocked posts about sensitive subjects, I must request that anyone on my friend's list who uses or may wish to use this tool, please let me know right now. If you are willing to use this tool, I am not interested in sharing the details of my life and thoughts with you.

Does anyone know if Frienditto can unlock filtered posts?

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i'm really late to this show. what exactly is frienditto? and why's it bad? (not doubting you in your opposition, i'm just clueless)

It's a webpage that can apparently grab friends-locked posts and make them publically visible. Read the stuff in the links above. It's owned by the people who run LJDrama -- not people I want to have access to my locked posts.

I hereby declare I will not now or ever use Frienditto. I've no idea how it works, but I wasn't going to test it out.

I used ljArchive (http://fawx.com/ljArchive/) this morning to back up my whole journal. Am hoping that's safe, however it's not stored online anyway, just my hard disk.

Frienditto has access to any locked or filtered post if someone on that filter has given them their name and password. If your friend can see it, andthey use frienditto, everyone can see it. Even if you delete it later or make it private later.

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The LJDrama twits have all but acknowledged that the site is their creation; it's basically a way for them to preserve drama-rific posts, even if the original author friend-locks or deletes them. Being able to keep usernames and passwords just provides additional power. If you're not paranoid, you're not being careful.

Well, that's just it, it's not that easy. A well-designed system will keep details like passwords and such tucked well away from everyone. The machine(s) that store passwords and such probably aren't even on the net; they're likely connected to an internal, private LAN; you'd have to somehow breach security on one of more of the outer-layer machines, then somehow burrow back into wherever sensitive information is stored. In that light, it's usually a lot easier to acquire information through social engineering, fake e-mails, etc. People are often easier to hack than well-secured servers.

And also, there's a distinct different between LJ storing your LJ name and password (they kinda have to, they're LJ), and some third-party service having access to your name and password. LJ is the trusted entity here... you're using LJ, you use your name and password to access LJ. Frienditto is a third party, and a dubious one at that; with your name and password, they can not only read all the journals of people who've friended you, they could log in and screw up your own journal. That's the core issue here.

I see this thing exploding all over my friends page today.

Just wanted you to know I will never use this or anything similar.

Frienditto's operating costs have increased dramatically in the past 48 hours due to a massive influx of users wanting to view the site. This increased traffic combined with bandwidth costs is threatening the site's continued operations.

Heh. Just mentioning their existence seems to have been enough to put them out of action!

Quick, everybody, start reading Frienditto right now!

(Say, does anyone with posting access to Slashdot read this LJ? [grin])

Say, does anyone with posting access to Slashdot read this LJ? [grin]

Say 99, that's sharp thinking! Real sharp!

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