What is Digg?Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate
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- jesperhh, on 01/06/2008, -9/+210Well, I'd rather have Facebook users vote than Myspace users..
- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -17/+153I think you mean MySpace.
- jgtg32a, on 01/06/2008, -4/+117http://bash.org/?244321
hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
********* see!
hunter2
doesnt look like stars to me
*******
thats what I see
oh, really?
Absolutely
you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
haha, does that look funny to you?
lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
awesome!
wait, how do you know my pw?
er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
oh, ok. - thirteenlisk, on 01/06/2008, -3/+111543-17-4325
??????? - DivisibleByZero, on 01/06/2008, -5/+85That's awesome. Let me try it. My social security number is: hunter7
- CYR1X, on 01/06/2008, -0/+71dugg for retardulous
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -2/+69Facebook just represents the young adult population (not just complete idiots like Myspace) and after witnessing the atrocities the older generations have committed to government, hell yes I want some new voters and change.
- loconet, on 01/06/2008, -1/+68Except that it is actually secured. That silly ajaxish window is actually loaded from a secure server (watch your network traffic) - the main browser url keeps it as http:// but that's only because that's the main document on facebook. The data is also submitted to a secure server (https://www.registrationbyworkingassets.com).
- 0ceanic, on 01/06/2008, -5/+72digg is spot on about security though.
if digg recognizes a social security number in one of its posts, it automatically censors them except when viewed by the poster.
***-**-****
spiffy eh? - malkir, on 01/06/2008, -2/+65lol you have no idea what you're talking about friend.
- 1ski, on 01/06/2008, -15/+78Thanks for posting this. It's incredibly important for all the organizations involved to insure the security of registrant's personal data.
- rnawky, on 01/06/2008, -1/+58Nice try, but that's Richard Nixon's SSN.
Google it. - iofthestorm, on 01/06/2008, -0/+50I thought it was hunter2?
- BalsamLane, on 01/06/2008, -86/+137Do we really want Facebook users to vote?
- DivisibleByZero, on 01/06/2008, -0/+45Well I'd be a fool to use the sme password as that guy. This one's more secure. It's 5 more secure, to be precise.
- kubedawg, on 01/06/2008, -3/+43Dugg for use of word retardulous.
- jeffsback2223, on 01/06/2008, -1/+37You should NEVER give your SSN to a company thats already proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
- DonkeyBeliever, on 01/06/2008, -0/+36You know you're addicted to bash.org when you recognize that
- DonkeyBeliever, on 01/06/2008, -0/+35LOL
- pbaehr, on 01/06/2008, -4/+32***-**-**** -- Whoa, weird. I had no idea. It still shows numbers until I log out and check it as a guest, though. When I log back in, it's numbers again!
- tricks574, on 01/06/2008, -1/+29Dumbest. Post. Ever.
- DJNewStyle, on 01/06/2008, -5/+32867-53-0909
- MioTheGreat, on 01/06/2008, -2/+26If it gives you a PDF, it's always generated server-side, and fed back to you. And there's absolutely nothing stopping it from being logged.
- RockStrongo1, on 01/06/2008, -3/+27does it post to an SSL site? If it posts to an SSL URL it may be ok, but it is still retarded to not have the whole application SSL.
- 1ski, on 01/06/2008, -8/+32jacobu9 -- it's the new firefox beta.
liquid night -- that's totally inaccurate. the information is only asterisked out on the display end of your browser so that someone standing over your shoulder can't see what you're typing. on the backend, the information is not concealed. - positron, on 01/06/2008, -1/+23Solution: Don't give out your goddamned SSN on the ***** Internet!!!
- nlevy, on 01/06/2008, -0/+22"Despite the facts that the machines are rigged, the counts are rigged, the electoral college is rigged, that Washington itself is rigged". lol Very trust worthy unbiased source
- merwin, on 01/06/2008, -6/+28Really? Is that why he has under 5% in the polls?
- Unreal595, on 01/06/2008, -1/+23but then the ssl of the ssn become snl and then leaves a sss thus bringing the world to a halt
- corsairstw, on 01/06/2008, -1/+22It's Firefox with an OS X 10.5 skin.
- ChrisWalkr, on 01/06/2008, -3/+24567-68-0515
- Coolmatt49, on 01/06/2008, -0/+20That's amazing! It appeared to me as *******, it didn't even say hunter7!
- Nick22, on 01/06/2008, -0/+20are you saying that he doesnt actually believe security of personal data is important?
- TheWorm, on 01/06/2008, -2/+21Remember, they only matter when Ron Paul is involved. Then if he wins all of a sudden it is the deciding factor of an election. "Oh, Ron Paul won a facebook poll? We may as well cancel the elections"
- blackbelt88, on 01/06/2008, -0/+19I mean, if you don't want your SSN and identity to be secure, that's your call, but I'm pretty sure most people would like to keep their SSN private.
- wphj, on 01/06/2008, -4/+22I don't know how old you are, but being high school/college aged, everyone is on facebook. I don't meet new people through the site, it's simply a means of staying in contact with and communicating with people who I have actually met in the real world.
- Speed, on 01/06/2008, -2/+20I'd rather have the average Facebook user voting than the average Digg user. Facebook generally represents the college students and young adult population (the ones who can vote, at least), whereas Digg seems to represent the "if I don't agree with you, you are a ***** idiot" population.
- NSResponder, on 01/06/2008, -0/+17Don't give your SSN to anyone who's not paying you money. It's not a general-purpose ID.
-jcr - Shorties, on 01/06/2008, -4/+21Is it actually sending data though? These voter registration sites never register you over the internet they just place all the right figures in the right sections of the form and then let you print it out to send in.
- mass922, on 01/06/2008, -0/+17Considering that the majority of college students and youth are facebook users, yes, we do want them voting, they are the ones who usually seek for positive change.
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -0/+16Totally right
...and Digg is supposed to have mostly a tech audience :/ - uptown, on 01/06/2008, -0/+15The POST of the form DOES go through a secure connection. This story is inaccurate.
- darkzealot89, on 01/06/2008, -3/+18First I was like O_O, then I lol'd
- strictnein, on 01/06/2008, -1/+16No kidding. Here's a tip boys and girls: the form page can be unencrypted but you still can submit the information to a secure page/script/whatever.
Until someone can link to the actual page so that we can see what this form submits to, this whole story is meaningless. - thewfirestarter, on 01/06/2008, -0/+15Don't digg him down, you humorless souls:
http://bash.org/?244321 - moshinator, on 01/06/2008, -0/+14I hate to say it but this kind of stuff is just good if done the old fashioned way.
- cuj0, on 01/07/2008, -0/+14Nobody fell for it...
- buyvalve, on 01/06/2008, -1/+14The bash.org quote everyone knows already gets dugg up, while the relevant joke the OP made gets dugg down. Wonderful.
- shadowmoose, on 01/06/2008, -0/+12Why the hell would you use facebook to register to vote?
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