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The LJ Crush Meme:
Hopefully those of you who have created accounts haven't used passwords you'd use anywhere else. I'm always suspicious of anything where I need to enter/create information like that, especially when there's really no reason for having to do it.
Maybe you've read their TOS and you're okay with it -- but for those of you who haven't yet done it but are considering it, make sure you know this:
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Nice lesson. So for those of you who aren't like me and don't go looking for the fine print, there it is.
Hopefully those of you who have created accounts haven't used passwords you'd use anywhere else. I'm always suspicious of anything where I need to enter/create information like that, especially when there's really no reason for having to do it.
Maybe you've read their TOS and you're okay with it -- but for those of you who haven't yet done it but are considering it, make sure you know this:
LJmeme.com's proprietary rights
By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the LJmeme.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, display and or sell such Materials. By posting said information, including personal information, you grant us full ownership over it for any purpose. This is an object lesson. Don't give out information you don't want other people to see without reading the fine print.
Nice lesson. So for those of you who aren't like me and don't go looking for the fine print, there it is.
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Date: 2004-08-10 09:59 pm (UTC)You see the password and email, and wonder "Why do they want this, exactly?"
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Date: 2004-08-10 10:15 pm (UTC)It's creepy that anyone would do anything like this if they have intentions of doing something malicious w/ the information they collect (which may not be the case), although I suppose if they're trying to prove a point, it's a good way of doing it.
I mean, I bet most of us who have LJs are generally Internet savvy (we don't believe in all the urban legends that circulate, or we know where to go to find out if something's a hoax or a scam or whatever), and yet we're not entirely invulnerable.