besides hundreds of other posts on different sites and this just made me so helpless and scared that I can no longer protect my identity online …

First of all WHO CARES!!! Welcome to 21 century, – [ you're online ] EQUALS [ PUBLIC ] – get used to it. For those who don’t know what “PUBLIC” means – AVAILABLE FOR ALL – DUH….

Anyways, I really wonder how this bright person who claims to be the security expert and a hacker (PPPPLEASE) managed to scrape this (amazing) data from facebook and got away with it ???

Hmmmmm, lets see, alright the first step probably requires an MIT degree:


a. go to facebook.com
b. click on the “find friends link” -> http://www.facebook.com/find-friends/?ref=pf

The second step probably requires at least 10 years of experience at NASA:

a. http://www.facebook.com/directory/people/A

The third step is the hardest of all and this is where his 1337 skills come into play:
a. write a 20 lines of code in your favorite language like PHP or ASP and scrape this data and go to the next page

Holly sh*t this was sooo hard… people need to relax a little and stop talking about this bull… and maybe talk about more serious issues like OIL SPILL that pretty much destroyed the ECO system and left thousand of people without work, I think this is a little bit more important … ?

I just wanted to share my unpleasant experience with those scammers. So here it goes:

On 12/19/09 I placed an order on their site. I received an email from “noreply-eng@shareit.com” a little later confirming my order.

I got another email from the same email:

Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for placing an order with share-it!. You have purchased a product
by System SoftLab.

****************************************************************************
Contents:

A. Brief information on product delivery
B. Details for product delivery for ArtMoney Pro
C. Technical Support
D. Customer service

****************************************************************************
A. Brief information on product delivery

The publisher will send the license key in an e-mail attachment within 48
hours.

Please note that you will not receive a delivery by postal mail.

****************************************************************************
B. Details for product delivery for ArtMoney Pro

The publisher of “ArtMoney Pro” has been notified and is responsible for
delivering this product. System SoftLab will send the license key in an
e-mail attachment within 48 hours.

Please contact System SoftLab directly with any questions about the
delivery of your order at: artmoney@systemsoftlab.com.

We recommend that you create a backup copy of the software, e.g. on CD,
because the publisher may not make the software available to you again if
it is lost.

So after 48 hours – I did not receive anything so I requested a refund:

Dear  XXXX,

Thank you for contacting the online store.

Sorry for the inconveneince.We have submitted a request to have a refund
for your order number XXXXX containing “ArtMoney Pro.” You may
receive an email confirmation of the refund at the address listed on the
order. If you do not receive the notification, please check your Spam or
Junk folders as these emails are sometimes considered unwanted by these
filters.

Sincerely,

Ma. Rosa V.
Your share-it! Team
_____________________________________________________________________

share-it! – a service of digital river - http://www.shareit.com
Digital River GmbH
Vogelsanger Str. 78, D-50823 Cologne, Germany
CEO: John Strosahl, Carsten Grüttner
Registered office: Cologne / HRB 56188 / District Council Cologne
_____________________________________________________________________

Original Message Follows:
————————

eMail: pavelxxxxxx
From: xxx xxxxxxx
Phone:

Message:
No information was emailed to me – that just says what kind of support I
will get …
Please refund my purchase!

Dear Valued Customer,

This e-mail is in regard to your request for a refund of order 309690525
for the following product(s), that we have checked together with the
publisher:

ArtMoney Pro – System SoftLab

We regret to inform that we must decline the request.

If you would like to see the information that is available on the
publisher’s Website, please visit http://www.systemsoftlab.com .

Thank you.

A month passed !!!!!! Paypal ruled in my honer – which was kind of obvious.

So on Jan 14 2010 I get this email from systemsoftlabs themselves ( sales@systemsoftlab.com ):

We regret to inform you we received a chargeback for the order placed by Pavel Baranov for ArtMoney Pro on 19-DEC-2009.

We have added Pavel Baranov to our blacklist
http://www.systemsoftlab.com/blacklist.html

Best Regards, System SoftLab
www.artmoney.ru ArtMoney v7.32
www.systemsoftlab.com SPD v3.20

So they write me back:

Do you check spam folder or not?
Why you don’t contact us?

We have sended registration to pavelbaranov@gmail.com information twice.
1) December 19, 2009 23:27 +0400
2) December 23, 2009 15:36 +0400

Best Regards, System SoftLab, Artyom Mikhailov

Second – I did check my junk folder – nothing from them.

So this continues on:

Do you think that your spam filter is our fault?
We are always online, if you did not receive the registration information, you have to contact us via email, ICQ or phone (Russia or Germany).

Now we have a penalty 9 USD for you chargeback.
Now your PayPal account is in two big blacklists. We exchange our blacklists with another companies.
If you really want to leave this blacklist then contact us saying that you accept to pay the loses caused by you (9 USD) .
Or you have to buy our program again.

So apparently I’m on their blacklist and they want $9 to remove me from it…

Anyway, I figured I share this info with the world so these duchebags get what they deserve ZERO customers.

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And you are stuck with MySQL cause Oracle is way out of your budget?

Well – give sphinx a try!

I know that sphinx is more of a text search / stats engine but with a little trial and error and some sneakiness you can achieve some cool results, so here we go:

Testing Sphinx 0.9.8-release (r1371)

Preliminary results (sphinx):

STAGE 1:

[root@web01 /]# search –config /usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf -q -a real -l 5 -s “results desc” -i test2

Sphinx 0.9.8-release (r1371)

Copyright (c) 2001-2008, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file ‘/usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf’…

index ‘test2′: query ‘real ‘: returned 1000 matches of 34358 total in 0.039 sec

displaying matches:

1. document=32792, weight=1, results=827830, date_added=Wed Jun  6 11:23:14 2007

2. document=3376336, weight=1, results=4302, date_added=Tue Aug  5 10:59:12 2008

3. document=18765, weight=1, results=3586, date_added=Tue Jun  5 21:42:00 2007

4. document=772274, weight=1, results=3122, date_added=Wed May  7 21:13:59 2008

5. document=113495, weight=1, results=1215, date_added=Tue Sep 18 07:31:07 2007

words:

1. ‘real’: 34358 documents, 34402 hits

(Mysql 5.0.37):

mysql> select id from employers where name like ‘%real %’ order by results desc limit 5;

+———+

| id      |

+———+

|   32792 |

| 3376336 |

|   18765 |

|  772274 |

|  113495 |

+———+

5 rows in set (7.57 sec)

Umn … lets see… I’d go with SPHINX, want more ?

Here it is:

STAGE 2:

Goal:
a. Count how many profiles are there in “Terre Haute” city_id 1906883 and has WORK TAGS (Strategic Supply Chain Manager, Strategic Supply Chain Management 5 inc., Strategic Supply Manager, strategic supply)
b. Get first 20 profile ids order by links desc

Lets start with good old MySQL 5.0.37 :

a.
mysql> SELECT COUNT(1) AS cnt FROM region_global_tags_222 AS pgt JOIN search_city_3837 AS loct USING(profile_id) WHERE ((pgt.global_tag_type=”employer” && pgt.global_tag_id IN (223209,141623,4561058,331778))) AND pgt.region_id=3837 AND loct.city_id=1906883;

+—–+

| cnt |

+—–+

|   1 |

+—–+

1 row in set (2 min 7.14 sec)

b.

mysql> SELECT profile_id AS cnt FROM region_global_tags_222 AS pgt JOIN search_city_3837 AS loct USING(profile_id) WHERE ((pgt.global_tag_type=”employer” && pgt.global_tag_id IN (223209,141623,4561058,331778))) AND pgt.region_id=3837 AND loct.city_id=1906883 order by pgt.links desc limit 20;

+———–+

| cnt       |

+———–+

| 147563021 |

+———–+

1 row in set (3 min 4.47 sec)

TOTAL:  5 MINUTES and 11.51 SECONDS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lets try with SPHINX:

[root@web01 pavel]# search –config /usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf -e ‘@global_tag_type employer @global_tag_id (223209|141623|4561058|331778) @city_id 1906883′ -l 200 -s “links desc” -i tags_region_3837                                                                                                                                           Sphinx 0.9.8-release (r1371)

Copyright (c) 2001-2008, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file ‘/usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf’…

index ‘tags_region_3837′: query ‘@global_tag_type employer @global_tag_id (223209|141623|4561058|331778) @city_id 1906883 ‘: returned 1 matches of 1 total in 0.014 sec

0.014 SECONDS vs. 5 MINUTES and 11.51 SECONDS

This is one of the uses of Sphinx that can increase your performance and decrease some DB load

Comments ?

Do you see any orange cones, yellow tape, etc ? YEA… OK ….

Btw, all that dirt was never cleaned up either – this is how we roll in DA VILLAGE

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