Frienditto

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From several of my friends -- all of this is via them, as I've had NO DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE SITE, but feel this meritted enough concern to repost here:

Watch out for Frienditto.

This site is an archive service that claims affiliation with Live Journal BUT DOES NOT HAVE IT.

There has been some concern over this site and security of LJ accounts. If you provide it with your login information for your Live Journal you give this service permission to archive your friends only entries and ANY locked entries of your friends for which you have access.

Please read the following answer to my support request regarding this site and be informed. More importantly, inform others.

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 Team

(Emphasis mine)


If you are using this site I will remove you from my friends list. Additionally, I will be extraordinarily cross at you, either for being an idiot, or a malicious little freak.

Comments

[dancingdrew.livejournal.com]

Or you could not be a moron and just NOT add people you don't trust in the first place. I have as many people on LJ who don't like me as anyone--and more than most--and yet my friends-locked entries are entirely safe. (Oh, and by the way, people on my friends list HAVE used their passwords and yet STILL my journal is safe.)

I can't believe the retarded reactions people are having. For one, NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR GODDAMN FRIENDS-ONLY ENTRIES. GOD. What is up with every LiveJournal user thinking that the maintainers of Frienditto are deeply interested in their lives? Two, OH MY GOD INTERNET TRUST IS BROKEN for Chrissake, it's the internet. You shouldn't have put anything up here you're unwilling for the world to know regardless. Frienditto threw that into sharper relief, but Frienditto didn't make you add trolls out to hurt your feelings. Frienditto didn't force you to make attention-whorish private posts.

[(Anonymous)]

You are right. FRIENDITTO isn't interested in perpetuating the wank.

But please. We'll see if the trust you have in the few select friends you have on your FO posts will bear out.

People get pissy. People get their feelings hurt. People get it in their head that even after years of friendship, they decide that something said in the privacy of a flocked post and posts it all over hell and creation.

The issue isn't having a FO list of 300 and having your FO entries violated.

The issue is for those tightly filtered FO posts.

You can't ever really know if you have someone you thought you could trust, violate that trust until you find your business plastered all over the internet.

Let me repeat. It's not about Frienditto except they make the archiving of FO posts (most likely done if a fit of pique) and they are done ANONYMOUSLY. So you won't ever really know which person you THOUGHT you could trust, can't be trusted anymore. So screening out the morons doesn't help much, does it?

FRIENDITTO is simply helping to foster the air of mistrust among friends. It is helping to enable that mistrust. And it is making it easy to do so and not have the archiver held responsible for breaking trust.

Can you HONESTLY say that those that you FO to are 100% trustworthy? Can you HONESTLY hold to that 100% of the time for now in to perpetuity? Can you HONESTLY say that one of those you hold in trust today will still be trustworthy tomorrow?

The internet tends to make people fucktards. The moment anonymity enters in to the picture, people can and usually do turn out to be cockbites.

THAT is the issue. FRIENDITTO allows for anonymity.

And being affiliated with LJDrama who has such a stellar record for drama and wank? Sorry. Not a ringing endorsement in my mind.

[dancingdrew.livejournal.com]

We'll see if the trust you have in the few select friends you have on your FO posts will bear out.

Actually, we already have. If someone on my friends list was interested in violating my trust, they already would have.

The issue is for those tightly filtered FO posts.

Which makes you even MORE foolish.

It's not about Frienditto except they make the archiving of FO posts (most likely done if a fit of pique) and they are done ANONYMOUSLY.

Something easily done before frienditto. Save HTML, remove personally identifying portions, post to free webspace.

Can you HONESTLY say that those that you FO to are 100% trustworthy? Can you HONESTLY hold to that 100% of the time for now in to perpetuity? Can you HONESTLY say that one of those you hold in trust today will still be trustworthy tomorrow?

Yes. Is this some sort of rarity on LJ?

THAT is the issue. FRIENDITTO allows for anonymity.

The irony of posting this in an anonymous comment is remarkable.

And being affiliated with LJDrama who has such a stellar record for drama and wank?

If you mean being maintained and coded by the same two people, I suppose so.

Not a ringing endorsement in my mind.

I'm sure they're crying their eyes out at the lack of endorsement from an anonymous commenter on LJ, but did it ever occur to you that if you don't want people on the internet knowing your business, you shouldn't tell people on the internet about your business?