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Creepy Friendditto thing
Mar. 6th, 2005 02:50 pm"Friendditto" is a Web site, not affiliated with LiveJournal (though I gather they're claiming to be), that is collecting people's usernames and passwords in order to archive those people's friends' friends-only posts.
There are all sorts of security risks therein, but the major one is that even if they do only what they claim, this means that they're archiving person A's friends-only posts because person B says they can.
If you're on my friends list and see posts with that little lock symbol, it means I'm willing to share them with you. It also means I'm trusting your judgment to a certain extent: telling your sweeties what's going on with me, or filing off the identifying information and telling your mother or roommate about an amusing incident, is one thing [1]; letting someone you don't even know see and quite possibly republish my posts is another.
If you've given your password to friendditto, please do at least one of the following:
Change your password at once. [1]
Notify me so I can drop you from any of my filters more private or specific than the four-part division of my list into people [human and animal], space probes, communities, and RSS feeds.
If you want an archive copy of something I've posted, you don't need anything like friendditto: save it to your hard drive, or hit "print" and file the hardcopy.
[1] Even then, if you're not sure, please ask.
[2] It would probably also be a good idea to change the password on any other site for which you're using the same password.
There are all sorts of security risks therein, but the major one is that even if they do only what they claim, this means that they're archiving person A's friends-only posts because person B says they can.
If you're on my friends list and see posts with that little lock symbol, it means I'm willing to share them with you. It also means I'm trusting your judgment to a certain extent: telling your sweeties what's going on with me, or filing off the identifying information and telling your mother or roommate about an amusing incident, is one thing [1]; letting someone you don't even know see and quite possibly republish my posts is another.
If you've given your password to friendditto, please do at least one of the following:
Change your password at once. [1]
Notify me so I can drop you from any of my filters more private or specific than the four-part division of my list into people [human and animal], space probes, communities, and RSS feeds.
If you want an archive copy of something I've posted, you don't need anything like friendditto: save it to your hard drive, or hit "print" and file the hardcopy.
[1] Even then, if you're not sure, please ask.
[2] It would probably also be a good idea to change the password on any other site for which you're using the same password.
