By far the most popular post I’ve ever written, in terms of traffic from Google, is one about how I tried to write a program to automatically suck information out of MySpace. What’s funny is that the post didn’t even talk about hacking into MySpace in the literal sense of the word, but rather how to use a known username and password to log in and get around the cookies and all the other roadblocks that MySpace throws in its way to get the profile data out. But instead of attracting people who want to get their data out, I get tons of people who actually want to hack into the thing for one reason or another.
I even had to turn off the comments on the post a while back because it was just getting so out of hand. People apparently didn’t read the post and assumed it was actually about hacking into MySpace, because I was getting several comments a day asking me to hack into people’s accounts for them, even getting offered money to do it. Most of them were obviously either A) stalkers or B) suspicious mates. There may have been one or two people who honestly lost their passwords and are just too… um, SLOW to figure out how to reset their password using their email account, but I’m pretty sure they’re in a very small minority. Kind of a sad commentary on the insecurity of people when they want to hack into their significant other’s MySpace account to spy on them.
But in any case, here’s a public service bulletin for the hordes of people out there trying to hack into MySpace: You can’t do it. That’s right, just give up now, you can’t hack into MySpace. Real life isn’t like hacking in the movies, and you’d have a better shot just guessing passwords if you’re really that determined. But technically, it’s just not feasible to hack it, especially if you’re the kind of person who hangs out on MySpace, so forget about it and move on. Thank you.
