I put asterisks in the name because one of the founders of the so-called service was encouraging his friends to play troll in the posts that warned people about Fienditto (add an r after the F). He was using a search engine to find the entries and the asterisks just seemed easier than fighting with trolls.
If you wanted to "archive" a public post on FD, you wouldn't need a password, but if you wanted to archive a f-locked post, you'd put your username and password in. FD said it wouldn't keep the passwords, but nobody who knows anything about the people who set it up -- a group called LJDrama -- believes them for a minute.
Once someone has your username and password, they have access to everything you do. Your profile, your private entries, and all the f-locked entries from people who have you on their friends list.
Once an entry was submitted to FD, it was copied in its entirety -- with comments -- to another server. Which means even if you deleted that entry on your journal it would still be out there. It was also copied to a community on LJ, where everyone could see it. In other words, private entries were made public.
They've been hacked now, so the whole thing may be moot, but don't forget -- they didn't make it sound like a bad thing. It was presented as a shiny way to "save" things for yourself. While some of the fd users may have been malicious, some may have merely been unwise.
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If you wanted to "archive" a public post on FD, you wouldn't need a password, but if you wanted to archive a f-locked post, you'd put your username and password in. FD said it wouldn't keep the passwords, but nobody who knows anything about the people who set it up -- a group called LJDrama -- believes them for a minute.
Once someone has your username and password, they have access to everything you do. Your profile, your private entries, and all the f-locked entries from people who have you on their friends list.
Once an entry was submitted to FD, it was copied in its entirety -- with comments -- to another server. Which means even if you deleted that entry on your journal it would still be out there. It was also copied to a community on LJ, where everyone could see it. In other words, private entries were made public.
They've been hacked now, so the whole thing may be moot, but don't forget -- they didn't make it sound like a bad thing. It was presented as a shiny way to "save" things for yourself. While some of the fd users may have been malicious, some may have merely been unwise.