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Sunday, August 26, 2007

so, theoretically: how hard would it be to hack someone's LJ account to read friendslocked posts?

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's probably easier to just ply their friends with booze.

8/26/2007 9:33 PM  
Blogger Moss said...

The big weak link is that the posts are readable by all your friends, so it's hard to have anything like real security. So, the methods to get at someone's friendslocked posts might vary depending on who the poster was and who the hacker was--and in some cases it might even be impossible, or at least impractical--but I generally wouldn't consider a locked LJ post as a good place to put something I really wanted to be secret.

8/26/2007 9:52 PM  
Blogger anne said...

i'm not particularly worried about security on my end, but have been asked this question by a party interested in finding out what an ex wrote in a f-locked post in a journal for which said party was not friended. which may be slightly unethical, admittedly, but i did say i'd ask.

8/26/2007 11:28 PM  

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