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Social networking sites are getting harder to trust these days. Orkut seemed to be somewhat better and reliable while sites like hi5, friendster, gazzag and many others had quickly found their place in my list of the most irritating and crappy sites of the internet. Oh and not to mention myspace - the sewer of the internet where every young guy and girl must be logged in. And finally the microsoft backed ASP achitecture of orkut.com crapped on me today. Refreshed my profile page today morning hoping to see some new scraps (which are merely timepass and excuse for people to not send a few lines of email), and there it was, a whole nice page in spanish, and my name was of a spanish female from Angola ! I also found my scrap counts were quickly decreasing with each refresh. Nice. Tried to change language to english. Didn’t work. Excellent website programming I must say. My google.com account settings page was also in spanish which kinda freaked me out. Luckily I could at least change my password, and complete the request to delete my orkut account immediately.
Anyone out there reading this - here is my 2 cents - orkut is not worth the time spent visiting it. Heck it still allows people to scrap arbitrary javascript (XSS attacks) stealing cookies and what not and as usual a piece of shit code from microsoft does not, or I think, can not take care of common security issues like this.
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“the sewer of the internet where every young guy and girl must be logged in” I liked that one. Why do people spend soe much time on social NW sites is beyond me. Real life has so much more to offer
You might want to try Facebook (without the applications). It uses PHP, the cheaper and (according to me) better alternative. It is way more elegant and privacy features are much better as well.
well..i agree…orkut is getting filthier day by day…but then orkut has strengthened its security by leaps and bounds…orkut was prone to hacking before … now its very very diffcult..,cookie stealer doesn’t work anymore..
i have tried hacking and infact for fun even hacked my friends profile ..of course i never tried it again..
until u get fooled there is no way u can get hacked…
what annoys me more is the no. of people who are obsessed with changing their themes..i wonder how stupid can one get..same guy keeps trying the same scripts thinking it would change their theme…
which in fact sends scrap to all of his friends..
orkut is full of morons i say..
the best part is the communities..there are loads of communities in whihc people keep discussing crap and playing games..
but there are quite a few informative ones..
IT how we use the feature that matters..