NOT GOOD

[nix_this]

OK. I just tried to edit my last post and got magically transported to 3 different people's private accounts, with full access. I am assuming in the same time period that my account was similarly available

Comments

[ariadnechan]

OMG!!

i was thinking a lot about this too, not for security, but because i need to separate my persona i think, i was thinking in doing a pool, because my son is asperger and my other kids is adhd, and i think it is important for me to talk about this things, but they are not fangirl related at all, so i was thinking what to do, but after what you said, i suppose it is better to change my private things out no?

[nix_this]

Yeah, I'm a little leery of keeping non-fannish things on here now. I have a temporary plan, we'll see how far I take it.

[janice_lester]

Worrying. But it doesn't change much--friends locks and privacy locks have never been good for that much, even when working correctly. :-|

[nix_this]

The thing that worries me is that it was a site release, not a hack and I am less down with incompetent security than I am with random assholery.

Besides, maybe it's time to go full anon on the personal shit. I've certainly been thinking about it long enough.

[janice_lester]

I don't know why I said that. Others having editing access to our content is MUCH scarier than f-lock fail. And not everyone is backed up--in fact, it's kinda hard to back up an LJ unless you use DW or make regular conscientious efforts to do things the hard way. Has LJ said/announced anything about it? *goes to check*

[nix_this]

Haven't seen anything yet. Looking at blogger vs. wordpress. Having trouble choosing D=

http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.html

[ever_obsessed]

Eh, this has been an issue recurrently over the last couple of years.

Not dicounting it as a worry, because WHAT THE FUCK, WHY?! but more tempered by how this isn't completely new.

Did you leave a ticket describing the problem? Because that'll be helpful for finding the fix and because you're the first person I've heard with this problem since the last release.

[duskblue]

Nothing you post online is ever really private. I learned that the hard way.

[nix_this]

I can deal with random strangers *reading* my private entries. Not so much with the editing.

[duskblue]

This is true. My problem was/is an ex-boyfriend computer programmer reading my private entries... ah ha D: