I had previously stated clearly that I will not help anyone to hack MySpace, even if I did know how to. Guess how can you incite me? Here is a very interesting email I received through the contact form which does that admirably:

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In MySpace on average (based on sample size of 2071208 images) 15 photos are uploaded per user. Considering only users who have at least one or more photos uploaded, they have on average uploaded a staggering 32 photos.

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I recently got two interesting comments from a scammer. The comments are very interesting because it preys on the need of people to snoop around other’s MySpace account (or life in general) to dupe them of their own account information. Let’s first look at the comments (currently in moderation and will never be approved):

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My public profiles on 9 popular social networking sites:

• LinkedIn - I have started adding my friends to this. Found some old IITians from this network. Also was able to find some old friends.
• Pownce - Just started…
• Orkut (requires free Orkut account) - Looks more like a dating network, similar to Friendster.
• Ryze - I was one of the early adopters, haven’t used lately. It has lots of details about me.
• Twitter - I frequently update it these days. Feel free to add me to your list.
• Facebook - Requires a free login.
• Hi-5 - Pretty spammy site. It dupes unsuspecting users to send hi5 requests to all addresses in their contact book. Avoid this site.
• MySpace - My MySpace love.
• Friendster

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I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company. The interesting highlights of the Facebook code are:

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MySpace has submitted another list of sex offenders to authorities. In response to a subpoena by New Jersey Attorney General, MySpace handed over information on sex offenders that joined since May 21st.

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I really like the opening song of Ben 10 sung by Mz. Moxy & written by Andy Sturmer. The lyrics are hard to fully understand. I used a high pass filter and here it is:

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Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is reviewing 162 identifiable records of registered Missisippi sex offenders provided by MySpace.

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I received this strange request on a page where I berate the need for hacking MySpace in general.

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I get tons of requests to hack MySpace so someone can spy on their wife / husband / girlfriends / spouse / daughter. The requests are varied but the overall theme is same. Someone feels betrayed or has the nagging feeling that something isn’t right. They somehow conclude that spying on their suspect via hacking their MySpace account will provide him / her all the informatiion they need.

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