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I don't think it has the latest and greatess web 2.0 fancy features. But it does what I need it to do. I have been using www.yuniti.com for a while and thought there aren't alot of people on there. I have gotten my family and close friends on there, which has allowed me to share photos and stories with them quite easily. There are some things that are lacking ofcouse, but like i said gets the job done. I think other sites have this (I haven't used anything else in a long time). but it lets me break up my connections into groups. So, i can share certain info with certain people and not with others. Might be worth checking out.

What a conicidence, just today i read a blog talking about a really cool new way we could do CAPTCHAS. The idea seems golden! I can't understand why something like this hasn't been tried. If google or this game creator were to try this, it would take a long time for computers to even come close to breaking this. Check out the blog http://www.yuniti.com/BetterCaptcha

It's actually not as easy as the "stupid and/or lazy" approach, and that's a bit of a close-minded accusation. Take someone as myself - I work on my site part-time, and so have a very limited amount of time. I try to test on both browsers, but believe it or not, there is still a lot of things that FireFox doesn't support or does in a funky manner, which Internet Explorer does beautifully. So, although i agree that it is inexcusable to have a site not function AT ALL under FireFox, there are certain cool things that you can only do in Internet Explorer (and I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy). Take for instance my site (checkout my page, http://yuniti.com/marquinho). Notice the cool transparencies and shiny effects? That's something that can't be done in FireFox (at least, not as of 3.0). So again, although I try to keep compatibility on both browsers and all recent versions, sorry to dissapoint all the FireFox lovers out there, but there's still a lot it can't do.

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Mind you that finding a security flaw is not a crime. Testing a security flaw is not a crime, either. The only thing Samy did which can be considered a crime, which is what he was convicted for, is damages caused to MySpace.

So, I ask you, was that his intent? To cause damages? I highly doubt it. Given Samy's blog, and given my own experience writing a script for MySpace (non-malicious, my site, yuniti.com, gives users the option to import their account from Myspace), it's frightning how quickly things spread on MySpace.

I guarantee you that Samy just thought it would be fun to try this out, maybe get 1000 friends. Look at how quickly his worm spread - he wasn't even given a CHANCE to undo what he had done, or to apologize. 20 hours? Imagine if that were you. If you'd found this flaw, played around with it, set it up to verify it's a flaw, and within a few hours, you've spread like a disease. Why don't you try contacting MySpace. It takes them 2 days just to respond back to you! And as for a phone number? Try finding a phone number for MySpace on their page. See how long that takes.

Samy messed up, no doubt about it. But not nearly as much as MySpace did, and Samy, not being a security firm, being just some random guy with no connections, could NOT have contaced MySpace. They would've ignored him and dismissed his attempt (try it yourself, e-mail MySpace, tell them you've found a security flaw, see what their response is and how quick it is).

So why doesn't MySpace get sued, by their uses, for damages caused for having a crappy, insecure system? I think they're far more deserving of it, for leaving such a gaping hole, than Samy is for "accidentally exploiting" it. If Samy was trying to cause damages to MySpace, he would've done a lot more than add people as friends (delete people's accounts, mass-mail the script to infected people's friends, etc.)