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

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Just to show you how caution travels like the wind, I found this entry through a friend, who got it from a friend of hers, who got it from you (or someone on his f-list who got it from you) originally. Just imagine the mushrooming effect that is taking place right now. Then mulitply that by all the other people who think Frienditto is a bad idea.

Powerful tool, LJ is. Also, I have Semagic saving all of my entries so there's no need to archive outside of my own computer. Archiving with any online service, no matter how reputable they seem, is asking for trouble. Sure, there's even a certain amount of risk with LJ, but thus far I've been okay.

My journal is "friends only," contact info and "mutual friends" list locked to friends view only. I made sure a long time ago to deal with potential trolls by taking whatever security measure I could. Hopefully, you have done the same. Cheers.