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AcedOut Wrote:

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> It really isn't that clever. It just runs a php

> script (see the 'badge.php' in the url) that runs

> on the facebook servers, telling it to return the

> profile picture of the person logged in.


It's just a bit of fun.

Let's not start with the computer-code-knowing dickswinging thing.

If the full url wasn't shown (posted as a link) then I guess it wouldn't have been such a giveaway.


Someone did this to me and managed to make up a fake BBC news webpage, with my pic embedded in it (dynamic, like this - taking the pic also from facebook). Now that was clever, and caught me out for a while! The headline was "Person wanted for questioning".

AcedOut Wrote:

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> Someone did this to me and managed to make up a

> fake BBC news webpage, with my pic embedded in it

> (dynamic, like this - taking the pic also from

> facebook). Now that was clever, and caught me out

> for a while! The headline was "Person wanted for

> questioning".


This person has more spare time on his hands than I do.


Is he available for lunchtime drinking?


Anytime after 11am will be fine, thinking about it.

Come now, AcedOut.. I think everyone knows what little time computer tekkie types actually spend working.


A rough job breakdown would be:


15% explaining to 'civilians' how difficult it will be to accomplish the task they've been set.

5% doing the job itself.

80% on Facebook, general dickswinging and Googling ex-girlfriends.

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macroban Wrote:

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> Now is this clever or downright dangerous?

> What if it had been a malicious PHP script?

> Does EDF Admin need to review security?


It is definitely not downright dangerous.


We do not want to stop people linking to other websites in their messages and, as in this case, it is on another website that the script runs. We cannot be responsible for other websites and their contents as there are rather a lot of them. I would however recommend that people keep their internet browsing software up to date (FireFox 3 is especially recommended) as their increased security may help those worried by malicious scripts.


Security on the forum is reviewed frequently and any issues we discover are addressed immediately.

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