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[bubosquared]

So, that friendsditto thing. I trust you all to be smarter than to give some site your LJ password, and frankly, when it comes to the locked posts in this journal, I don't really care enough to get upset, myself.

However.

If I have you friended on my writing journal (mouthelicon), and you've given them your password, let me know so I can (at least temporarily) defriend you there, because if the non-fanfic I have up there gets publically posted, I lose First Electronic Printing Rights, and that would be exactly why I locked those posts in the first place.

And remember, kids: don't take candy from strangers, and don't trust anyone online with your passwords.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I'll try and plain as concise as possible. Ahem.

Friendditto is a service that "archives" LJ posts. Basically, you enter the URL there and it archives the whole post, including comments and stuff, links intact. A handy thing if you want to preserve a post you fear could end up deleted. It's run by the LJDrama folk, I believe, who obviously would like a way to preserve their drama for posteriority.

This would all be well and good, except that FD also offers a way to archive friendslocked posts. Other people's friendslocked posts. Basically, you put in your LJ username and pwd, and you can archive any locked post you have access to, effectively making locked content publically available, and without any way to trace it back to the fuckwit who did it.

Plus, FD claims they don't cache usernames and passwords, but there's really no way to prove that, which means that conveivably, if someone puts in their pwd, FD can then archive their entire friendslist's locked content.

People are understandably annoyed about this for all sorts of reasons. If nothing else, it gives backstabbing asshats an easy and anonymous way to do their backstabbing, which isn't something I particularily like, and well, see my post for my own specific objections.

I hope that was actually helpful and didn't just muddle things up further. :)

[rsadelle]

Huh.