Friendditto

[neotoma]

Ally Oops has a concise explanation of the whole thing

Just for the record, unless I say otherwise, I don't want my posts on this or any similiar service. I want them only on my journal and under my control.

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[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

So how do we find out if someone signed up?

Also, if you or I are not signed up, what is our level of exposure? Any comments we made in friends-locked LJs of people who did sign up? Not good, but probably less damaging than if they could suck in everyone's friends-locked LJ entries (in other words your own main journal, not comments on friend's journals.)

Bleh. We're going to have to assume nothing is private. Nothing. "Oh brave new world, etc." <_<

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Apparently, the exposure is this : the friends-list of anyone who gave their ID and password to the site is up for grabs, including f-locked posts. And it's done anonymously, so if your flocked posts show up on that site, you can't figure out who submitted them.

Really, it's extremely invasive.

And yeah, we're going to have to assume. Luckily for me, most of my f-locked are just me bitching about my work, and frankly, if I got fired it would probably be an improvement -- I'd get hired again in six weeks by a better company for more money, given the market for biotech around here, and less morale-busting decisions from upstairs.

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Feh. Not good indeed. I'm not too worried about my own stuff, I think the only entry I have ever f-locked was my rant over the troll that posted mean stuff on my SQ page over a fanfic. And if that person eventually read my posting... gee, I'd be so sorry. Not. >-D

Frienditto is probably violating copyright in some way, perhaps LJ will unleash the legal eagles and get them to cease and desist. In the interim, self-censorship is the word of the day, alas.

I have always assumed any post I made could be made public, just because of the ease of making a screen cap or copying and pasting. Also, the world's intel services can read anything on the web, locked or not. Not that fannish chat is terribly earth-shaking, but it is something to be aware of. And no, I don't feel safer knowing that.