Cookie bug...
for some people using IE, the site doesnt let you login/register and asks to enable cookies. A quick fix is using Firefox / mozilla. Give us a couple of hours and it should be fixed. Sorrie for the trouble.
posted by Murtaza @ 5:54 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Privacy issues:
1) By default, our first and LAST names are shown (and no way to disable).
2) By default, our e-mail addresses are shown (and there's no way to turn this off).
3) By default, our birthdays are shown (and there's no way to turn this off).
4) Replies on anonymous blogs aren't so anonymous. So you can't reply to your own post unless you want to un-anonymize it.
The biggest problem I have is with #1 and #2. I can imagine someone writing a webcrawler, harvesting e-mails, first-last names, and birthdates... And now, you have a privacy issue. #1 is an issue because with first and last names, someone can now figure out what school I go to, ask around and stalk me.
Thanks for the comments. You should see some of these changes on the site pretty soon.
You can reply to your own blog if you wait a few minutes. I have made many blogs which I replied to and no one was the wiser.
By default our email addresses are listed in our contact info, which by default is restricted to friends only.
By default first and last names are shown. Easy to disable by restricting who has access to your profile.
Now, on birthdays, I agree these should be toggable.
Noah, if what you said was true, then I shouldn't have known your primary e-mail (which I see listed as nkronemeyer@[omitted]). Mailing address is Roswell, GA. Your AIM screenname and Yahoo screennames are listed (I won't list your screenname but they end with K17). Your MSN address is listed JBourne@[omitted]
I determined all this information without logging in to Xuqa and going here:
http://gsu.xuqa.com/noah-kronemeyer
If you say that I had to login to get your school information, that's true.. but I could easily script a bot to grab your school information (once registered), and then visit the personalized URLs directly.
The privacy policies of hiding contact info to everyone doesn't seem to work.
*cough* I made all that information public to everyone.
hey im not here to bitch about privacy issues, i think is pretty funny that something doesn't work with IE for once, you should have left it like that ;), make people switch to a browser that works. anyways, you guys have made a pretty awesome site, how many people worked on developing everthing? how many servers run this, are they all dedicated to *uqa? i'm just interested in how this all came together, if you have some time shoot me an email ryan@dancebreakdj.com
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