SUP selling rights to read locked posts?

[matgb]

evil_lack_shoe -:I will try

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[foxfirefey]

Is that even possible?

I was under the understanding that all friends only stuff is still in the databases of LJ, which SUP has no direct access to.

[andy]

Personally, I believe it's still so, and LJ would violate its own Privacy Policy transmitting such sensitive data out of SF datacenter without my permission. :-)

[foxfirefey]

Agreed--the only way I could think of to get ahold of it was if the counter JavaScript they put on every page was scraping friends only posts and transmitting the content elsewhere. Which is possible, I guess, but feels really far fetched.

People are really skittish when it comes to this kind of thing, and can come up with imagined threats very easily.

[andy]

There is no reason to do it in so complicated way. Anyway, the counters which SUP puts at the pages are reviewed by the core LiveJournal/Six Apart team, and it would be much easier to transmit FOs directly.

[matgb]

That's my gut reaction, but if the rumour is going around I thought it best ask, and this would be the best place to ask.

[andy]

The best place to ask is LiveJournal Support, actually. I doubt that there are people who can tell you the absolute truth here. :-)

[matgb]

Well, yeah, if it affected me; but if true, or even as a rumour, it's still an on topic story for here, and all SUP requests get hidden on Support so you can't publicly display the answers.

Besides, anildash and others answer stuff here a lot, and they're closer to the absolute truth than many...

[andy]

Yeah, it's completely on-topic here. I just meant that only Support can officially ensure you, and nobody here can.

However, I'm pretty sure that Support will tell you "no, entries are not transmitted in any way." :-)