Tony Yarusso's Blog

So I recently found out that there is a ridiculously easy way to circumvent MySpace's privacy "protections". You know how normally folks can mark their profile as "private", or allow viewing their profile, but not their friends or comments? Well, apparently MySpace is pretty lazy about it, and just uses some CSS tricks to hide parts of the page. If you use Firefox, all you have to do is view the page without interpreting the CSS, which can be done by clicking View > Page Style > No Style in the menu, then visit the "hidden" page you want to see. When you're done, you can just turn the formatting back on.

Note: You can also accomplish the same thing by using a browser that doesn't interpret CSS ever, such as links2.

Yet another reason I'm not missing the MySpace account, eh?

[Edit: It appears the hole has been patched now, actually - perhaps from a spike of attention? Let us know if you discover any new open ones!]