01/11/13
With better gun control coming up soon in the US, the gun lobby has shown to have no arguments and dug up the old meme about the Nazi gun control law.
The online magazine Salon Has now clearly debunked this BS.
It is long overdue that we get better gun control here in the US.
11/06/12
The Huffington Post now projects that Obama won the election!
And all these Republican idiot rape apologists lost!
Now we can get past the Tea Party idiocy!
10/22/12
Since I last wrote about Facebook's lack of an abuse address, there seems to have been a significant development.
Last Friday, yet another idiot signed up with the Brazilian Facebook site, and immediately went to send out friend requests to some 80 people. Facebook stopped access to that account on Sunday, as has become obvious by the fact that the person couldn't log in to his account anymore and asked for a password reset (all of this came to my domain, of course, so his password never got reset.)
Olá Gabriell,
Você solicitou a redefinição da sua senha do Facebook recentemente. Entre aqui para redefini-la: https://www.facebook.com/recover/code?[redacted]
Ou, você pode inserir o código de redefinição da senha a seguir: [redacted]
Translation via Google Translate:
Hello Gabriell,
You asked to reset your Facebook password lately. Go here to reset it: https://www.facebook.com/recover/code?[redacted]
Or, you can enter the password reset code below: [redacted]
So, being locked out of his account, this idiot creates a new FB account today.
This time, Facebook apparently required him to confirm registration before allowing him in:
Olá Gabriell,
Para concluir o processo de cadastro, clique no seguinte link:
http://s.fb.com/[redacted]
Pode ser que você seja solicitado a inserir este código de confirmação: [redacted]
Translation:
Hello Gabriell,
To complete the registration process, please click the following link:
http://s.fb.com/[redacted]
You may be prompted to enter this verification code: [redacted]
I have no idea why these idiots in Brazil think my domain is their playground...
Anyway, the barrage of friend emails for the fake account that my Procmail recipe dumped into FB's mailboxes seems to have had some effect.
Somebody may ask, why not just report the person through the Facebook website? The problem is that with 1 billion or so Facebook accounts, there are usually several people with the same name, sometimes 10 or more. Which one is the person with the fake account? That's why a way to report an email address is required, and a real abuse@ address would provide that, since the emails in question, including email addresses, can be reported that way.
I really hope that there are some people with a clue about the Internet employed at FB who can push for FB following established Internet practice.
Update: What I now do is to change the password on these accounts (the guys gave me the implicit permission to do that by using my email), and then I deactivate the accounts... Since I started that, there hasn't been any new such fake Facebook account with email addresses in my domain...
08/25/12
08/20/12
Facebook doesn't like to receive emails.
They have an abuse@facebook.com address, but to actual abuse complaints, they respond with a completely idiotic boilerplate response:
Thanks for your email. We're streamlining how we receive feedback to be able to better assist you. The links below will take you to more information to help you solve and report your problem.
Common issues
[references to some Facebook pages]
What complete and utter BS about "streamlining." This is just a code word for "we don't want to hear from you", "we don't care about killing the Internet."
If the complaint doesn't fit into the "categories" of their unhelpful pages, they just ignore it.
In my case, there are some people on Facebook who use fake email addresses. For some reason, these idiots decided to use my domain name. So, whenever these idiots are getting a friend request, or some other insignificant event happened, Facebook sends the notifications to my domain. Since all email to my domain ends up in my inbox, I get flooded with this BS.
Some examples (in Portuguese, since these idiots use the Portuguese-language version of Facebook, they are probably from Brazil):
========================================
Confirmar solicitação
http://www.facebook.com/n/?reqs.php&type=1&fcode=[redacted]Exibir todas as solicitações
http://www.facebook.com/n/?reqs.php&type=1[redacted]
========================================Olá Jose Diogo,
Gilvaneide Cordeiro quer ser seu amigo no Facebook.
...
========================================
Localizar amigos
http://www.facebook.com/n/?find-friends%2Fbrowser%2F[redacted]Ir para o Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/n/?home.php[redacted]
========================================Olá Cristiellen,
Localize mais amigos.
...
I now have a Procmail recipe set up to send these turds back to every corporate Facebook email address I could find.
Still looking for more corporate FB addresses...
Update 9-6-2012: It seems as if I have gotten the attention of some Facebook people with a clue.
They still don't have a working abuse@ address, but at least they now seem to require email confirmation, and deny access if that's not forthcoming.
One of these emails (again in Portuguese):
Olá Cristiellen,
Você entrou no Facebook em 21 de Outubro de 2011, mas ainda não confirmou sua conta.
Para confirmar, basta clicar no link a seguir:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?confirmemail.php&[redacted]E é isso! Após fazer isso, você terá acesso a todos os recursos do Facebook - comentários, compartilhamento de fotos, planejamento de eventos e mais.
Importante: a partir de hoje, você não conseguirá conectar-se a sua conta do Facebook sem concluir esta etapa.
The important part (fed through Google Translate):
Important: starting today, you can not connect to your Facebook account without completing this step.
And I got this kind of email even for a few email addresses that weren't on my radar, because they hadn't shown up in my inbox yet. FB didn't get any complaint about them from me yet, because they hadn't triggered my Procmail recipe. So, somebody at FB apparently is checking the email domains in their database.
About time that they fix this crap...
If FB personnel would actually contact me, I could give them a list of all the fake email addresses in my Procmail recipe.
