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

[frawst.livejournal.com]

It's a very nifty piece of code definitely...but c'mon...what are the NON-naughty uses for Friendditto? What are the non-drama/wank/mockthestupid uses for it? Honest question.

[girlvinyl.livejournal.com]

I don't have time to type out a bunch of uses cause I am late for a haircut. Heh. However, if you read some of the entires before the deluge, there are people archiving personal threats of physical violence. And I think FD is a great use for that. If you go to the authorities you at least now have a cache of it from an independant party. Not to mention its anonymous so the person making the threats sort of has to be pissed at everyone in general as opposed to someone specific.

I think one of the WORST uses of frienditto is to archive pages of people saying they hate frienditto. It was ironic at first, not it's just stupid.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

You can cache a threatening post locally in several ways, of which the best (legal protection wise) is probably just to print a hard copy and stick it on a bank vault, date-stamped.

A service *similar* to frienditto could be useful as a third party to verify that the post really did exit in the LJ account concerned, and you haven't just created a fake page and printed/stored it.

However... Why would such a service then need to make the entry public? What's needed is a service where you can, at the appropriate time, tell them "I authorise you to allow *this* designated individual/lawyer/whoever access to see *that* post" - Not something that leaves all your archived posts open for all to see!

[frawst.livejournal.com]

Interesting.
Thank you.