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 nice1
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 A question for the geeks 
#16626912 - 08/01/12 10:27 AM (9 months, 16 days ago) |
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LOL that word "geek" doesn't apply anymore, in todays revolution everybody is a computer geek - its quite mad - i remember when i was hated on being a computer lover as a kid, i bet its the other way around today hahaha the computer kids bully the sports guys.
Anyway, my question...
How does a website detect my facebook profile? Some websites i go on for the fist time and they detect me and my pic pops up even tho I havnt joined.
Can anyone explain what sort of programming language and type of code is required to do this?
I assume it is looking for the facebook cookie and taking the information from it. Has anyone got a link to some open source code that accesses the FB cookie thing that I can implement to my website?
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Re: A question for the geeks [Re: nice1]
#16640321 - 08/03/12 04:37 PM (9 months, 14 days ago) |
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Cookies.
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Re: A question for the geeks [Re: Diploid]
#16640395 - 08/03/12 04:51 PM (9 months, 14 days ago) |
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whats the name of the fb cookie file?
where is it located on my hd?
what data does it contain?
details!!!!!!!!!
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Re: A question for the geeks [Re: nice1]
#16640462 - 08/03/12 05:05 PM (9 months, 14 days ago) |
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Well, where the cookie lives depends on your browser. Look around in the settings and you'll find where the files are stored. IE stores them here on XP: "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Cookies". Replace Administrator with your login.
As for what they contain, probably nothing that will make sense to you. I don't know the details of how FB does what it does, but it could be as simple as a cookie with a very long random number that uniquely identifies you. Since it's such a long number, it's nearly impossible to fake. When you go to a web site, the server requests the FB cookie from your browser, then it pings FB's servers with that random number to map your profile.
Again, I don't know how they do it exactly. This is just one of many ways it can be done. They may use a different method.
Here's the Wiki entry on browser cookies. It'll give you a good basic education of how they work. Beyond that, the FB user agreement will probably tell you exactly how they use cookies to track you. It's that long, boring, legal document nobody reads but everybody says they did when they click I AGREE.
I don't use FB so I don't know the details and don't care about them either.
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Re: A question for the geeks [Re: Diploid]
#16641368 - 08/03/12 09:37 PM (9 months, 14 days ago) |
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Just to clarify... Facebook has a public API that lets website owners use facebook features of their site. The default behavior of this does not give the third party site your information, but it will let the site display it for you.
I am not saying facebook has a good privacy policy or track record, but the fact that your data shows up on a third party site doesn't mean that the third party has any access to the data. Not that this is 100% true always, but in general it's how these things work.
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Re: A question for the geeks [Re: tak]
#16643226 - 08/04/12 06:18 AM (9 months, 14 days ago) |
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Thank you guys much appreciated, thats exactly what I was asking to find out. You clever chaps  Thank you.
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Re: A question for the geeks [Re: tak]
#16646412 - 08/05/12 11:51 AM (9 months, 12 days ago) |
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tak's on the ball. Where you been man? Long time!
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Re: A question for the geeks [Re: Diploid]
#16648999 - 08/05/12 08:25 PM (9 months, 12 days ago) |
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lurking muahahaha!!!!
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