Comments | shadowstone: what's friendditto?

shadowstone

what's friendditto?

Mar 06, 2005 10:26

ok folks, does anyone know what friendditto is? It seams to be an automated archiving service but there seams to be HUGE argument about it. Some people claim that if you go there you can see posts that were marked as private, but becuase a registered friend signed up with friendditto then anyone can see it from the friendditto site ( Read more... )

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dark_ixion March 6 2005, 13:16:35 UTC

They want your soul, and your money, your blo-o-o-o-d, and your bones. They look evil, and should be strangled with rusty barbed wire.

wolf_shadow March 6 2005, 13:49:27 UTC

See my e-mail...

In brief:
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"From the Livejournal abuse team:
Dear user,
Frienditto is not affiliated with LiveJournal in any way. As such, this website does not have access to any entries which are not publicly viewable. If someone provides them with their LiveJournal username and password, however, it gives this site access to all non-public entries that account would have access to. We can only recommend that you do not provide your username and password to any person or website to ensure the security of your account.

Additionally, if you believe anyone on your Friends list may have provided their login information to this website, we can only advise that you remove them from your Friends list. This website will have access to your Friends-only entries as long as any person on your Friends list has given the site access. If any content is present on Frienditto which you do not wish to be there, you will need to resolve the issue with that website.

Regards,
Scott
LiveJournal Abuse TeamI have no idea if changing your password ( ... )

gawain69 March 6 2005, 21:36:04 UTC

I can't see why anyone would give an external website their LJ username and password. I don't think anyone on my friends list is that stupid, so I'm choosing not to worry.
As the man says, if you think one of your friends has given away their password to Frienditto, then un-friend them. Seems simple enough.

pseudo_kemetic March 6 2005, 22:13:14 UTC

The post that I'm replying to has the lies spread by LJAbuse.

*sighs*

This has *not* been a good day, mixed with my bad depression today x__x

sirernest March 6 2005, 21:59:49 UTC

It's a service that archives LJ entries for you, on their own server. You tell them what entry to archive in every single instance. Should that entry be "friends only" you have to enter your username and password too so the server can retrieve it from LJ (being friends-protected and all). So basically it's an automated cut-n-paste tied in with some archive space.
What everyone now is throwing a tantrum about is some users archiving LJ entries from people in their friends list to frienditto. But this makes those texts, formerly only accessible to a limited group readable by every single anonymous web user.

pseudo_kemetic March 6 2005, 22:15:21 UTC

And the boyfriend gives a far better answer then I can give right now.

Just to reiterate, it doesn't store passwords or give the creators access to all your journals, and stuff.

*eyes glaze*

sirernest March 6 2005, 22:46:25 UTC

Yet I considered your explanation superior.

pseudo_kemetic March 6 2005, 22:11:28 UTC

Here's my generic copy-n-paste response. I'm friends with one of the creators, so I'm pretty much in the know (and known since the site went up ( ... )