This shocked me. Then again; now that I think about it, it doesn't. Thought this was interesting enough to share.
I sent a link inside of a private message to a friend on facebook as an experiment. The link was not sent out to anyone else and was never indexed online anywhere. 2 minutes after the message was sent, it gets crawled by a facebook spiderbot. Guess we have no privacy in private messages either.
13:03, link created and message sent to friend via private message.
13:05, facebook crawls the link with fragmented headers. No user-agent provided to my webserver for the request, RFC non compliant crawl that ignored my robots.txt file.
_ME_ - - [12/Jul/2010:13:03:50 +0000] "GET /bob/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2848
66.220.153.248 - - [12/Jul/2010:13:05:10 +0000] "GET /bob/ HTTP/1.1" 206 2848
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executiverehab
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Re: Facebook crawls private messages
May 30, 2011 12:06 PM
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Quadie4
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Re: Facebook crawls private messages
May 5, 2011 4:18 AM
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Everyone, be very careful of using Facebook and other social networking sites! Refrain from posting personal informations, and don't think that all the apps and games in these sites are not risk free!  For all internet users, I would like all of you to check this out: Julian Assange calls Facebook the most appalling spy machine ever I'd like to make it a point to all the younger users of internet to please cooperate with your parents in protecting your private lives from cyber criminals. They can take the identity of anyone in your family and commit terrible crimes under their name, wipe all the cash out of your parents' bank account, and much more terrible stuffs! Innocent people have spent years in jail for crimes they know nothing of. Let us not take this for granted, and let us not allow the malicious individuals to benefit from our lives. |
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Chris Gyle
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Facebook crawls private messages
Apr 19, 2011 9:19 PM
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On Face book there are problem realted to abuse to your profile. Before adding some one be sure he/her profile is real or you do know him/her.
I had to face problem with facebook & i found a number of people got into problem.
user should careful using facebook.
Chris Gyle
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oddsmojo
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Facebook crawls private messages
Jul 12, 2010 7:43 PM
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This shocked me. Then again; now that I think about it, it doesn't. Thought this was interesting enough to share.
I sent a link inside of a private message to a friend on facebook as an experiment. The link was not sent out to anyone else and was never indexed online anywhere. 2 minutes after the message was sent, it gets crawled by a facebook spiderbot. Guess we have no privacy in private messages either.
13:03, link created and message sent to friend via private message.
13:05, facebook crawls the link with fragmented headers. No user-agent provided to my webserver for the request, RFC non compliant crawl that ignored my robots.txt file.
_ME_ - - [12/Jul/2010:13:03:50 +0000] "GET /bob/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2848
66.220.153.248 - - [12/Jul/2010:13:05:10 +0000] "GET /bob/ HTTP/1.1" 206 2848
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