Because it’s worth repeating – from allyoops
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Frienditto
DO NOT use this service without fully understanding what it does and what it exposes you and your frineds to, particularly if you want to remain on my friends list. There has been some concern over this site and security of LJ accounts. If you provide it with your login information for your Live Journal you give this service permission to archive your friends only entries and ANY locked entries of your friends for which you have access. Please read the following answer to my support request regarding this site and be informed. More importantly, inform others.
Dear user,
Frienditto is not affiliated with LiveJournal in any way. As such, this website does not have access to any entries which are not publicly viewable. If someone provides them with their LiveJournal username and password, however, it gives this site access to all non-public entries that account would have access to. We can only recommend that you do not provide your username and password to any person or website to ensure the security of your account.
Additionally, if you believe anyone on your Friends list may have provided their login information to this website, we can only advise that you remove them from your Friends list. This website will have access to your Friends-only entries as long as any person on your Friends list has given the site access. If any content is present on Frienditto which you do not wish to be there, you will need to resolve the issue with that website.
Regards,
Scott
LiveJournal Abuse Team
If I think you’re using this service, I will remove you from my flist.
And from one of the commenters:
These are the people who run and own: Encyclopedia Dramatica and LJDrama.
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I too, if I find out that someone on my f-list has used frienditto, will be removed. I do not give permission for my journal to be reposted/copied/etc anywhere without my express consent.
Edited to add: There is apparently no way to tell who has used the frienditto service at a glance. Entries can be submitted anonymously. There is apparently no way to *remove* an entry either once it has been posted there.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/frienditto/ – seems to be is an RSS feed of entries that have been submitted. but I’m not sure if it really is everything or just a news/update journal for the service.
I can’t say as I am surprised that this has happened, I’m mostly surprised it hasn’t happened before now. Finally, don’t put anything in your lj (locked or otherwise) that you wouldn’t mind becoming public. This is the internet and search engines are not your ‘friends’ any more than everyone on your ‘friends list’ carries the same values and judgements you do.
ETA2: How frienditto works. You go to the site, you give it your lj name, password and direct url to the entry you want ‘preserved’. Their software then uses your login information to grab that entry (and comments that exist at the time of the copy) and post it publically to their site.
ETA3: For the record, anyone is welcome to link a public entry of mine or do a crosspost. That’s why the entry is public, neh?
ETA4: I’m screening all comments on the entry because quite frankly I’m tired of the trolling and drama. Go play elsewhere.
and ooooh I bet they have to ditto it again since the one they have is out of date now…
Hmm…. do we know anyone that is using Frienditto right now? Please inform one another so that we can remove him/her from our friends list. On the other hand, what the other poster said about not posting anything that you might not want other people to access is sensible. After all, “private” means very little in cyberspace, which can be a dangerous place. After all, there’s always good ol’ pencil and paper and red bound leather.