Really? I find that hard to believe. They can't have access to your f-locked stuff. Maybe they were posts that were once unlocked, but then you later locked them?
Yes, they certainly can. I don't know how they do it, but they have. What's more, in googling around, I found other people complaining of the same time.
I have no idea how. All I know is that the URL I linked below displays several indexed posts for my username, and my journal is locked down. I had to change the default posting mode in order to even make a public post asking them not to index the journal.
Ok, but presumably when you locked down you had public posts that switched from public to friends-only, right? Those would be the ones they'd have access to since they would have been able to index them until you locked down. I haven't seen anybody complain of posting something initially as f-locked and then seeing it on ljfind. Everyone I've seen is bemoaning the indexing of f-locked posts which were once upon a time public.
This *must* have originally been a public post since you've got a stranger commenting in it saying that s/he's going to add you as a friend. And that's the most recent post.
It's possible--and of course, my two or three unlocked posts are among those in there. I did sometimes forget to f-lock something, and then edit once it had posted.
I'm just applying Occam's razor. It seems more reasonable to me that these were once-unlocked than that there's some huge gaping hole in livejournal's security that somebody has been using unpunished now for months or years.
And I really wouldn't worry about it. There's really nothing incriminating or identifying there (so far as I could tell). It's an annoyance, sure, but I'm skeptical about following directions given to me by Annoying Internet Presences that promise to stop being annoying if said directions are followed. I suppose I'll keep an eye on your guys's accounts on ljfind and see if this actually works.
I'm also blasé because I *want* my stuff to be found. ;)
Well, that's why I'm not happy--the info there is definitely identifying, if someone cared to look into it. Names of my adviser, professors and grades in their classes, info about a course I taught at Previous University, and a conference panel I was on. Grr.
Oh, and I was assuming less a huge gaping hole in LJ security, and more that the creator of Ljfind could have been lying about what they do and don't index. ;)
Eh. They'd have to do a lot of sleuthing. You should try it yourself and see how easy or difficult it would be to figure out who you are using google and the information available there (since that's what, like, 99.99% of the population would do if faced with this task). That might put your mind at ease. And (I just checked) there's no connection to imbrium8 by googling your real name (save for a variation of your lj-name at deviantart, but there's nothing there, so it's a bit of a dead end).
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Like here for instance (the first entry on ljfind under your name): http://imbrium8.livejournal.com/210323.html
This *must* have originally been a public post since you've got a stranger commenting in it saying that s/he's going to add you as a friend. And that's the most recent post.
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Still pretty ticked off, though.
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And I really wouldn't worry about it. There's really nothing incriminating or identifying there (so far as I could tell). It's an annoyance, sure, but I'm skeptical about following directions given to me by Annoying Internet Presences that promise to stop being annoying if said directions are followed. I suppose I'll keep an eye on your guys's accounts on ljfind and see if this actually works.
I'm also blasé because I *want* my stuff to be found. ;)
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Oh, and I was assuming less a huge gaping hole in LJ security, and more that the creator of Ljfind could have been lying about what they do and don't index. ;)
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