Frienditto

[rm]

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

[zarq.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just great. :(

(No, I'm not using it. Now I have to go and ask my f-list.)

[annablume.livejournal.com]

Charming. Not using the site.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Not I said the Infosec warrior.

I would think that its obvious to anyone that giving away their LJ id/pw grants access to everything , but then again common sense is not all that common.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

That's really scary. Eep.

*hides from Frienditto*

[niralth.livejournal.com]

cutest
avatar
ever

ugh

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

Came from friend-of-friend or something like that...

Copying this, if you don't mind. Will give link!

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Bleagh. Have linked and asked the question on my LJ, too.

[lanthinel.livejournal.com]

One of my other friends noted this earlier, and I shared this post with them re: your feedback from lj-abuse.

[wild-boys.livejournal.com]

niralth does not lie.

It's spring, so obvously the asshats are in bloom..

[labellerose.livejournal.com]

Oh Gawd. Thanks for the heads up on this! What's their purpose?
To increase the amount of angst & wank in the universe?

Um, thanks awfully, frienditto, but I've had enough.

[eqe.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Even people who're supposedly smart, like Joi Ito (http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/02/03/apologies_for_spamming_friends_with_smsac.html), apparently have no problem typing their username and password into a website merely based on an email that appears to be from someone they know.

I shake my head over humanity, I really do.

[drstein.livejournal.com]

sweet. Other Marillion fans. ;)

[33mhz.livejournal.com]

If you think that it claims to have LJ affiliations, your reading comprehension could use a brush-up.

[subbes]

Most of the points made in this entry are untrue and could be checked by looking at the frienditto site.

[jameth.livejournal.com]

Where does Frienditto claim to have affiliations with LiveJournal?

[hawksley.livejournal.com]

you'd be pretty stupid to assume that frienditto and lj are affiliated in ANYTHING of any sort.

common sense, kids.

-s

Confirm/Deny

[old-age.livejournal.com]

You are a M2F, post-op.

[sandstar.livejournal.com]

HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden
Internet Explorer

As of now...

Would like to post your post in my journal, if O.K...

[rfjason.livejournal.com]

RETARD ALERT!

[jameth.livejournal.com]

We will be back in 2 hours. We are doing maintenance to accomimodate the increased traffic. Also we are not affiliated with livejournal in any way shape or form."

Re: Confirm/Deny

[greeneyedsarah.livejournal.com]

no answer from rm = confirm.

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

Uh.

When did you get the bizarro idea that anything you put online is private?

Other than that, your dispensing of misinformation in this post is hilarious. FD does not claim any connection with LJ. No one needs your password to post your friends-only entries. Information is not cached by FD.

And FD will never delete anything that has been posted to them, so don't bother trying.

[dgt2.livejournal.com]

I used Frienditto once and jameth and girlvinyl gained unauthorized access to my password and computer. They now have my personal information and stole $500 from me.

[hep.livejournal.com]

FEAR! UNREST! DRAMA! LJ PETITIONS AND COLORBARS!

[girlvinyl.livejournal.com]

omg
SUCH A COFFEE
I am laughing so hard right now.
HAHAAHAAAAAAAAaa