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February 17, 2004more hacking of FriendsterIf you want to see a beautiful exponential curve, graph the commonality of last names. Some names (::cough:: Smith) are EXCEPTIONALLY common. Jonathan Moore realized this and he used it to extract more data from Friendster. "From this we see that after trying only twenty-eight last names we have a ten percent chanse of having guessed the user's last name." Moore continues on to tell us other ways of extracting purportedly private data from Friendster. Ah, hackers, how i love thee. Category: Posted by zephoria at February 17, 2004 12:05 AM
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Presumably you can shorten the odds further by eliminating unlikely first name/last name combinations. e.g. assume that few Alices are going to have the surname Kumar, and few Smiths are going to have the first name Rohit...
Posted by Dan | February 18, 2004 4:23 PM
Posted on February 18, 2004 16:23
hihi
Posted by sheng | April 23, 2004 6:29 AM
Posted on April 23, 2004 06:29
hi. if you notice this, do u mind to hack this friendster account which is belonged to me.
first name: simply
last name: beautiful
well the main reason is i forgot my email address and i wanted to close this account... i registered it 4 days ago.. do send me an email back thank you
Posted by Elle | May 3, 2004 1:17 AM
Posted on May 3, 2004 01:17