{"id":4197,"date":"2012-12-11T22:23:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T03:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2012-12-11T22:23:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T03:23:18","slug":"spam-from-facebook-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4197","title":{"rendered":"Spam from Facebook friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scamsniper.blogspot.com\/p\/facebook-spam.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4198\" alt=\"fbspam\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fbspam.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fbspam.png 250w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fbspam-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fbspam-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fbspam-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fbspam-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fbspam-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/fbspam-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Thank you, Facebook. Now I am getting garbage that is apparently coming from some of my Facebook friends, all because (no doubt in your eagerness to please your corporate sponsors and push your sinking share price up a little) you happened to leave open a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1009_3-57507648-83\/spam-from-friends-is-actually-result-of-facebook-hole\/\">gaping security hole<\/a> allowing spammers to &#8220;scrape&#8221; friend lists and e-mail addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, it is possible that the same spammers are sending garbage to others in my name. And while I may know not to click on an unsolicited link even if it appears to come from a good friend, colleague, or close relative, others may not be so cautious.<\/p>\n<p>One of these days, I&#8217;ll find myself a spammer and slowly strangle him.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4197' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Facebook. Now I am getting garbage that is apparently coming from some of my Facebook friends, all because (no doubt in your eagerness to please your corporate sponsors and push your sinking share price up a little) you happened to leave open a gaping security hole allowing spammers to &#8220;scrape&#8221; friend lists and <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4197' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-internet","category-51-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4201,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}