Hey, I've come back to ask something from the computer wiz.
Today I logged onto facebook (I don't do that very often)
Anyway... It said my account had been suspended because my email adress and account details were found on an open forum of some sort.
Now, apart from keyloggers, how can people get people's account details for anything?
Oh, and how would facebook have found the forum that had peoples account details on it (I want to see if it's really true (and what part of my online-ness that the forum was talking about (e.g. Online games))).
Facebook warned me about something
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Re: Facebook warned me about something
Google your e-mail address, Google your password, Google your password's md5() hash. (No, it is not dangerous...) I do it frequently just to check if my personal info has been compromised or not. So far, 0 results. Yay! :) (My e-mail address does turn up at two or three places, but that's not a big issue. Passwords matter a lot more.)
Google the exact error message facebook gives you and you will find:
Yes, facebook can crawl the internet looking for sensitive information about its users.
p.s.: Nice nested quotes! You're going to be a good programmer :)
Google the exact error message facebook gives you and you will find:
- hundreds of other confused users asking the same question on other forums
- and their problem solved by hundreds of other smart people
Yes, facebook can crawl the internet looking for sensitive information about its users.
p.s.: Nice nested quotes! You're going to be a good programmer :)
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Re: Facebook warned me about something
Sarcasm...?
whenever I google "manstie", it comes up with 'how to tie a mans tie' and such... and my youtube account page...
but seriously, your method... not all forums put themselves on google.
whenever I google "manstie", it comes up with 'how to tie a mans tie' and such... and my youtube account page...
but seriously, your method... not all forums put themselves on google.
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Re: Facebook warned me about something
Your password is manstie?
EDIT: I never put myself on Google, yet Google has indexed over a thousand pages of my forum. Any forum with no Google results is not a real forum.
EDIT: I never put myself on Google, yet Google has indexed over a thousand pages of my forum. Any forum with no Google results is not a real forum.
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Re: Facebook warned me about something
Well obviously my password isn't manstie, but one would think that if someone has posted my password in a forum, there will be a linking username to my password... a durrhh.
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Re: Facebook warned me about something
Wise decision.3ICE wrote:I don't know what to say to that, so: Yes.
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