Charafantah's Cave

أكيد سمعت من حد من اصحابك أو قريت في بلوج أو في الأخبار أو حتى سمعت من البرادعي المعلومة دي:

مصر فيها تاني أكتر عدد من الناس على الفسبوك بعد أمريكا

بصراحة أنا استغربت قوي لما سمعت المعلومة دي, لإن مصر عدد الناس اللي بتدخل عالنت فيها مش كبير قوي, فـلو افترضنا مجازا إن كلهم عالفسبوك , ده برده مش حيبقى عدد مهول. أنا قلت يا إما أنا معلوماتي عن عدد مستخدمي الشبكة العنكبوتية في مصر غلط, يا إما الفسبوك مش عليه ناس كتير للدرجة دي.

المهم, قلت أما ابص اشوف الأرقام دي كام بالضبط… اكتشفت إن المعلومة دي زيها بالضبط زي معلومة إن الطفل المصري اذكى طفل في العالم

مصر أصلا مش طالعة من أكبر 10 دول على الفسبوك …. دي مش حاجة وحشة ولا حاجة حلوة على فكرة …دي مجرد  raw data

مصر ال23

في موقع تاني بيقول

1. USA : 102.6 million

2. Turkey : 16.9 million

3. Indonesia : 15.3 million

4. Italy : 13.5 million

5. Philippines : 8.8 million

6. Spain : 7.8 million

7. Argentina : 7.5 million

8. Mexico : 6.6 million

9. India : 5.6 million

10. Malaysia : 4.2 million

هو في مواقع كتير كل واحد منهم بيقول رقم, المهم إن كلهم متفقين إن امريكا فيها أكتر عدد وإن مصر مش من أكتر 10 دول على الفاسبوك

ممكن قبل ماننشر معلومة نبقى نرجع لحاجة اسمها المصدر؟خصوصا لو المعلومة فيها ارقام.

ومش معنى إن حد قال لك معلومة وقال فيها رقم وقال لك الاحصائيات بتقول يبقى كلامه صح, 87% من الاحصائيات ارقامها متفبركة

sources:

http://www.facebakers.com/countries-with-facebook/

http://www.checkfacebook.com/

http://gorumors.com/crunchies/number-of-facebook-users-by-country/

http://www.nickburcher.com/2008/07/facebook-user-numbers-by-country-and.html

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/active-facebook-users-by-country-200904.html

The following has been written by “Andira Hayder“, but I strongly believe it’s exactly what I want to say; and if I said it, i could have nerver put it better.

Here you are the 10 reasons why I don’t care about Gaza:

1. Because I’m ignorant. I don’t know enough about the history of the struggle to claim that it’s a cause I support just because everyone does. And I think that what’s worse that not knowing, is pretending to know.

2. I refuse to delude myself and convince myself that signatures, facebook statuses, facebook groups and forwarded e-mails will help. I don’t think people in Gaza are thinking: This is really bad, but that facebook status, really made a difference.

3. I also refuse to convince myself that the least I can do is to SHOW my sympathy to Gaza. Because, First, they’re not looking. Second, to whom I’m showing it, my facebook friend list?

4. I won’t use Gaza to feel good about myself. I won’t use Gaza or any other thing to feel generous, good or patriotic. I won’t use Gaza to live in that beautiful melodramatic state that I enjoy very much. I won’t use Gaza as blindfold to overlook the things that I can fix around me right here right now, pretending to have a bigger issue to think about.

5. I’m not surprised and I wonder why everyone is acting as if in shock, it has always been the case. This struggle has been going on for 60 years now. People in shock are people who forgot and people who forget are not people who REALLY care.

6. I can’t provide what I don’t have. In Gaza people are facing an inhumane situation and in our countries we’re treated inhumanely on a daily basis. I’d really love to have my humanity back before I can try to provide it to others.

7. I’m not an occasional person. I’m sick of people being occasionally patriots, occasionally good, occasionally caring. I’m sick of people with short memory who are patriots as long as there’s Gaza on TV and once this is over they’re back to the same old people they were. 

8. I don’t believe there’s such a thing as supporting a place or a person, the only thing that’s supportable is an ideal, a principle and showing that support is by becoming a man/woman of principle and not by mottoes, statuses, groups, boycotting, articles.
If you support Humanity, be humane. If you support Justice, be just. If you support Courage, be a man.

9. I don’t care about Gaza because there are 6 million children under the age of 5 that die out of Hunger each year and nobody gives a damn about them, so if I’m gonna care about something, I’ll care about them, they can use a signature or two, don’t they?
People are being treated inhumanely everyday everywhere. I’m sure if you go on a little walk around your neighborhood, you’ll find more than one case that you can call inhumane and where you actually CAN help.

10. I don’t care about Gaza because noone, I know, really cares

If you’re REALLY patriots, you’ll be willing to die for what you “believe in” and I bet that 90% at least of the people pretending to be patriots, if they were called to fight in a war against Israel, they’ll start looking for their mom’s second cousin who can get them an excuse from their military service (in case they didn’t already)

If you REALLY care about Humanity, you’d care about hungry children as much as people tortured in the nearest prison as much as people killed in terrorist attacks as much as people who are suppressed by their countries’ regimes. These are all people worth your empathy. And not only the people who get the most Media attention and I’m sure these people are millions not hundreds.

If you’re REALLY Generous you’d sell everything you have to help. If you’re really generous you’d try to give what’s hard for you to give, not just giving that extra 100 pounds that are already laying there in your wallet while you’re driving you’re 80,000 pounds worth car.

Don’t fool yourselves by saying you’re doing the best you can do, because if you REALLY care, you can do better.

The best I can do for Gaza is to fix myself, try to fix what’s around me and hope that one day I’m strong enough to help. Until then, I don’t care.

It’s amazing the amount of information you can get about someone, just from his name or his email using the internet.

I was trying to see what kind of information i can get about someone from either their name or email address.
So i chose a random email address and a random name (i don’t know the persons before) and started my search.

For the email here’s what i did: (the email was associated with a VERY generic nickname, search results would be massive)

- Analyze the address – it shows that it’s an account for a student as the domain is a .edu
- Google the email address -  no results
- Using the university search engine on their website search for the user name – results found
- The  result included a file which lists the major, year of graduation, full name and picture.
- Using Facebook – a search with the name returned a few results
- Examining the results (through friends, and finding that only one has many friends joined in the network of the university, as the person i was looking for was not joined in that network)
- Through the Facebook profile i was able to find some personal information like the age, more pictures, friends, personal nick from what people call him\her from the wall posts and many other things

For the name here’s what i did: (the name was associated with a fake email, so results with the mail did not return anything)

- Google the name with double quotes “” – the name was posted on several bulletin boards, most topics were on Arabic poems (الشعر العربى) looking through the BB profile showed the second name (i already had the last name)
- Using the last part (father + last name) of his\her name on 140online.com i was able to find the address and phone number
- Using the name on Facebook – one result returned, but profile was accessible to friends only, but the thumbnail picture was still viewable and list of friends was readable too.

To sum things up, using just a name or email address and an internet connection, one can get:

1. Full name
2. Picture
3. Phone Number
4. Address
5. Nick, age and other personal information
6. Interests
7. College – graduation date – major

Off course that’s not all, please note that i only got this information in less than 30 mins, i could have invested more time.

Watch out what information you put online, and where you put it it’s a VERY small world

5 Jan 2008 Update: I found an application that does the same function on facebook, it can be found here, i have not tried it though and am not sure it provide the same functionality, but you can try

I wrote a small shell script in Bash and PHP, that takes the friends page from facebook and extracts the ID and names into a CSV file.

It could be useful to keep track of your friends and\or save a backup.
Or you could combine that with the “Hacking Facebook…Exposed” post and try to improvise with your own tricks
It could also be used as a reference, in case you want to check if someone blocked you, or deactivated their account (you can read here to check how to find if someone blocked you or deactivated their account)

• Open your facebook account
• Navigate to http://www.facebook.com/friends.php , make sure there is nothing after friends.php
• Save the page as HTML
• Copy\paste the code below to a text file (let’s call it fbf2csv.sh)
• Then chmod it (chmod 755 fbf2csv.sh)
• Then execute it (./fbf2csv.sh Friends.html output.csv)

 #!/bin/bash
echo 'Facebook Friends ID and Name extractor a.k.a FBF2CSV

by Achraf El Kashef (Charafantah) http:\\charafantah.wordpress.com\  11 Nov 2007

'

    if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then

         echo 1>&2 Usage: $0 friends.php.html output.txt

         exit 1

    fi


grep profile.php $1 | \

grep .jpg | \

grep -v sidebar | \

grep -oE 'id=[0-9]*&*[[:alpha:]]*;*[[:alpha:]]*">*[[:alpha:] -.]*</' | \

sed 's/id=//' | \

sed 's/">/,"/' | \

sed 's/<\//"/' | \

sed 's/&highlight//' > $2


cat $2

exit 0

I wrote this in 15 mins, so don’t complain about the code or tell me the regex could have been written in a better way(i suck at regex anyway)

Am going today to write this into a PHP script, and publish it online, should make it easier for people with no access to linux or cygwin.

You can get it here now: http://www.misr2000online.net/facebook/

If you can provide a better host for the php script (a decent one) please contact me.

Currently, the script will support names with the following:

• Multiple spaces in the name (e.g. John Doe Foo Bar)
• Dashes (e.g. John Foo-Bar)
• Single quotes (e.g. John Fo’ Bar)
• Dots (e.g. John F. Bar)

It will not support non Latin characters (e.g. accented characters like french é ê or anything like that, any entry like this will just be discarded,, you can however change the regex (on line 8 from bottom) to make it parse only the ID# and discard all the names) (anyone know how can i match these in regex?)

Please give me feed back if it doesn’t work as expected with you, i haven’t tested it on other lists than mine, but i expect it should work as fine.

NOTICE: THIS POST IS VERY OLD, AM NOT SURE THAT THIS INFO WILL BE WORKING AT THE TIME YOU TRY IT….DO NOT CONTACT ME ASKING TO HACK SOMEONE’S FACEBOOK ACCOUNT

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Ok, let’s be honest, it’s not exactly Hacking Facebook exposed, It’s merely some few tips for Facebook.

I found a few ways to know things that you should not know about, like who blocked you for example

First, let’s state a few fast facts about Facebook:

• Facebook give each user a unique ID
• A user can block an other user
• A user can deactivate his account
• You can see the name of any Facebook user
• Facebook has different privacy levels for each other
• You can get a certain user ID by checking any link he has (e.g. send message,add to friends etc) and check the id=XXXXXXXX in the URL, where the XXX is a number
• You can read here to know how to extract friends id’s from the friend’s page to a text(CSV) file.

Ok, so you have this person on your friends list, and s\he suddenly disappears from your contact, you want to know whether they deactivated their account, or they blocked you?

Here are a few more things i noticed in Facebook:

• If someone blocks you, his wall posts on your wall will not be removed,
  they will stay there with his name NOT hyper linked.
• If someone deactivates account, wall posts will be removed from your wall,
  but you can still view wall to wall. (read bottom)
• If someone removes you from friends wall posts will not be removed,
  they will stay there with his name hyper linked,
  when clicked u will see request friendship page.

You can view any wall-to-wall conversation between you and any user, even if he has his account deactivated, or if he removed you from his friends list using this URL:

http://www.facebook.com/wall.php?id=XXXXX&banter_id=YYYYY&show_all

where XXXXX = your ID and YYYYY = his ID

Here are a few things i noticed about the wall-to-wall page:

• On someone who blocked you, it will redirect to your homepage.
• On someone who is not your friend with restricted privacy, it will redirect to your homepage.
• On someone who is not your friend, but with low privacy settings, it will give an empty wall-to-wall page.
• On someone who is deactivated, it will work and will see all posted messages (if any), even if you don’t see them on the normal wall!!!
• On your friends, it will off course work normally

Here is how wall posts will look like:

Normal friend:

Non friend

Blocked you

Deactivated account

Post is removed

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You can also find out the name of anyone on Facebook, even if s\he blocked you, and even if the account is deactivated.
All you have to do is go to the send message page, and change the ID parameter, like this:

http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?compose&id=XXXXXXXXX

where the XXXXs are the ID of the person , you can try to randomly change this number, it would work.

But sending the messages to anyone would not work in the following cases:

• You are blocked by that person
• He\she has a deactivated account
• He\she privacy settings do not allow messages from non-friends

Instead, this message will appear:

Message Not Sent

The following people either have restricted privacy settings, or have opted out of receiving emails from Facebook.

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Also, another nice trick you could is use Google to see other people’s photo albums, even if they do not have a public profile and you can’t see any of their details. This started to happen since facebook started to announce it will make records public.

put this in the search string: “site:facebook.com inurl:album” then view the “repeat the search with the omitted results included.”

also you can add another inurl:id=XXXXX to search for someone specific

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Also, i noticed that when you try to poke or send messages to non-friends simultaneously, it will tell you that you are about to get blocked, this happens after you poke\message more than 10 (i didn’t count exactly, am not too good with counting when it’s more than 10, math has never been my thing you know )

But you can send pokes\messages to your friends as much as you want (at least as much as i tried )

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It’s not much, but still could be useful

I spent a few days, trying to know if that person blocked or just deactivated their account after it disappeared suddenly from my friends list….well, i wish i didn’t know