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Protect Facebook Private Photos and Albums from Being Viewed by Anyone Using Javascript Hack

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Apr
27
2010
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If you have just created a new Facebook account, by default the Facebook users that are not your friend would not be able to view your Facebook profile. They would see a message that says “Raymond only shares some of his profile information with everyone. If you know Raymond, send him a message or add him as a friend.” Since people couldn’t even see anything on your profile unless they are your friend, logically they can’t see your private photos or albums too right? Only half right…
View Facebook Private Photo Album
There is one working javascript hack that has been discovered more than a month ago which allows anyone to view Facebook private photo and album without being in the friend list. All the user needs to do is login to their Facebook account first, then go to the main user profile page and paste the javascript below at the address bar and hit enter.

javascript:(function(){CSS.removeClass(document.body,%20'profile_two_columns'); tab_controller.changePage("photos");})()



When it works, it shows the Facebook album photos instantly and if not, you get the error message “There are no photos to display. Photos of Raymond may not have been tagged, or may not be visible due to privacy.” I have done more tests and found that this is caused by a privacy setting in Facebook allowing “EVERYONE” to view photos and videos of the user.

Fortunately there is a fix to protect your privacy and prevent anyone from viewing your private album photos in Facebook. Simply follow the steps below on how to configure a more strict privacy setting for your Facebook profile.

1. Login to your Facebook account
2. Click on Account at the top right and select Privacy Settings
3. Click on Profile Information
4. Select either Only Friends or Friends of Friends for Photos and Videos of Me.

Protect Facebook Private Photo Album

To me, this does seemed like a bug and Facebook should definitely fix it. Even if the user did configure that everyone can view their album/photo, but if their profile is set to private, the same should happen for the album photos too. Found any friend that didn’t have their photo protected? Let them know about it while waiting for Facebook fix the bug.


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    • PSK

      woah i didnt know that. thanks ray!
      ps.yay first comment! (i hope)

    • xera216

      great job ray ! :D

    • http://www.myboni.com Boni

      never heard about this hack before… will try this.. before they fix it :)

    • reg

      tnx raymond

    • siti

      thanks…

    • http://www.lankapo.com lankapo

      I thought this is a hack script
      In fact it is step to protect our privacy in fb.

      thanks
      ray

    • kantagara

      gr8 raymond. nice finding

    • stephanie

      Share another thing, even though u make all the photo albums only available to friends / a group of friends, after finish uploading it, unless you don’t publish to feeds. Else, everybody still able to see ur photos even though u had set the privacy of the album only available to a group of friends.

    • Chantrea

      This hack is great and I will try out. Thank Raymond. Keep up the good work.

    • rodrigodj

      useful post! many thanks! c”,)

    • dino

      very interesting raymond

      thx!

      welcome back =)

    • kushtra24

      cool thanks

    • kath

      thanks Ray

    • http://www.sinvise.net Sandeep

      If you think about it, the novice user won’t even know how to use javascript and so it isn’t a huge security risk, but a security risk none the less. Thanks

    • Ahmad Saleem

      I know about this script already. But thanks, Raymond. Best blog.

    • Liliput

      Nice find

    • medo rezk

      yeah baby yeah
      ediiiiiiiiiny

    • http://vervesample.com/727637905 razlina

      very good..thanks

    • Alessandro

      Hi! not work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • http://rp3dsolution.blogspot.com/ Ruturaj Patil

      Hello,

      Yes …. Raymond
      Very good ………… Thanks for share this code

      GOOD …………..

    • http://zuhairy.kelabjutawan.com Part Timer

      Owh, thank ray..for the sharing.. :-)

      This is first time i know about that…

    • ankit

      cannot express in words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(

    • Abs

      thanks so much! hey, i observed, we’re lucky to have 2 posts for today huh:)

      more power!!!

    • aum

      thanks !! good stuff

    • Rash

      nice share :)

    • darkanubispr

      Nice share but already fixed

    • ah zhan

      really2 appriciate that!!..
      thanks RAYMOND..!!

    • Alwin

      thx a ton ray

    • bellfunk

      Or better still…stay away from facebook

    • DarkDiviner

      Thanks for sharing Raymond :)

    • http://hmm rrmm

      awww , nice share but as you have said its been around for awhile ^^

      Now facebook will def patch it ! They havent so far but from this date onwards they will fix.

      thanks for share raymond. Good to see you back super pc
      Your brain is like a pc but 4 times processor speed.

    • norman

      nice tip and tricks. thank u very much.

    • JK III

      I think by default the option is NOT set to “everyone”. I don’t see any need to worry.
      (I may be mistaken though.)

    • Merlin_Magii

      10 out of 10 again ! Thanks Raymond – I am compiling a comprehensive dossier on the dangers of various networking sites and had missed this one.

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      @darkanubispr: No it’s not fixed yet. I’ve just tested it and you must have done it wrongly.

    • Alex

      thanks Ray!!!

    • jackson

      it did not work.

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      It is still working jackson. You must have done it wrongly or the Facebook profile has chosen either only friends or friends of friends to view albums.

    • ding-dong

      thanks ray :D

    • Abhijeet Singh

      It seems that if photos are available, u can just click the photo tab of the profile(Only if its not private one can see the photo tab)

      I dunno y would someone use this script.

    • Abhijeet Singh

      I’m sry for my last comment… :( :P

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Someone would use this script when they want to view photos of a facebook user that is not in their friend list. Get it?

    • marc

      It doesn’t work on my side…. I use Firefox. When I paste the js code in the address bar… I see on the page this message : There are no photos to display. Photos of PROFIL_NAME may not have been tagged, or may not be visible due to privacy.

      and the same thing happen with the post tag, it gave me this msg: PROFIL_NAME has no recent posts.

      Do I do something wrong?

    • marc

      Sorry for my post… It works! I guess that for the user I did the test, they probably customize some privacy settings!

      Thank Ray

    • http://lolzor lolzor

      This is not a bug. It simply allows for more user options. That fact that ppl dont realise they have to do both is the problem.

    • guido

      But i realise something. PLEASE ANSWER MY DOUBT

      you can see photos if you have friends in common. but i try it in one person which there are no friends in common and it did not work

    • Ali

      does not work anymore : ) Is there another code ?

    • ronan__

      Hey dude it doesn’t work right now

    • mcpain

      guido is right. i found out the same thing,

    • http://yeha wayakdos

      alert(“Shut DoWn :p”)

    • http://ok prashant

      thanks man … these things in fb sud b fixed

    • http://gencshala genci

      baifiefwognwr

    • imane

      hi these things in fb sud b fixed

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