{"id":1084,"date":"2004-02-17T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/02\/17\/more_hacking_of_friendster.html"},"modified":"2004-02-17T00:05:56","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T00:05:56","slug":"more_hacking_of_friendster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/02\/17\/more_hacking_of_friendster.html","title":{"rendered":"more hacking of Friendster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to see a beautiful exponential curve, graph the commonality of last names.  Some names (::cough:: Smith) are EXCEPTIONALLY common.  <a href=\"http:\/\/more.theory.org\/archives\/000110.html#more\">Jonathan Moore realized this and he used it to extract more data from Friendster.<\/a>  &#8220;From this we see that after trying only twenty-eight last names we have a ten percent chanse of having guessed the user&#8217;s last name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moore continues on to tell us other ways of extracting purportedly private data from Friendster.  Ah, hackers, how i love thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If 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. &#8220;From this we see that after trying only twenty-eight last names we have a ten percent chanse of having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}