A Teaser Trick

You know when on someone’s profile you see ‘View Photos of X (405)’ and you click to see them all and you can only see something like 340? Well there’s a way to see at least a few of those hidden pictures.

Get their facebook ID and go to: http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?subj=[Facebook ID]

You’ll now see a page that shows all the albums they’re tagged in. Unfortunately the photos that are in private albums are not clickable, but you can still enlarge that one thumbnail of that album. The filename of the thumbnail is something like: aXXXXXXXX_XXXXXX_XXXX.jpg and to access the fullsize image you just got to copy and paste that url into your address bar and change that little ‘a’ to an ‘n’.

This will only work on public profiles in your networks and it will not allow you to see every picture of them as they may have more than one picture in those private albums and you can only see one in the thumbnail

i seriously doubt facebook would fix this so go ahead and use it for however long you want

NOTE: I’m currently in the process of writing a greasemonkey script for the previously-announced hack and it should be finished soon

What shall I do?

If I tell you all how to do the hack, facebook will plug the hole within hours albeit giving me some (unwanted) publicity for a few weeks. I mean, you only have to google for Byron Ng to see how much publicity that caused for him and facebook fixed that hack very quickly. So really, releasing the hack on here is only going to mean the hole is going to be fixed instantaneously. Also I wish not to cause a huge ruckus for people’s privacy as well as the issue of stalkers and online pervs

So i was thinking, how about people suggest Facebook IDs of celebrities, and I’ll see what I can dig up.

Suggestions on how to handle the method of this hack will be very much appreciated as well. I’m definitely not after making money with this information nor with the pictures I find, it’s just I’m liking the idea of finding a bug, and exploiting it until I’m bored, then releasing the method to the public.

Oh and remember, I can only view the albums of that facebook ID. I can’t sort by the photos that they’re tagged in as that’s not how this hack works. celebrity friend IDs will be helpful too

email facebookalbumviewer@googlemail.com with your suggestions and facebook IDs

First Post

So, i’ve been able to access the albums of facebook users for a number of days now. It doesn’t matter if they have a private or public profile, nor does it matter where in the world they live or have their facebook account located. In most cases I can access a large number of photos from their albums using a simple little hack.

As far as i can tell, no one else knows this trick and the last time that facebook users’ privacy was broken, it hit the news the world over.

Time will come when I will document this hack, but for now here’s proof that anyone’s albums can be accessed at this moment in time. For journalists that request, I can also show a sample of what I can retrieve from a celebrity’s facebook account given their facebook ID.

Here is an album from Mark Zuckerberg’s profile:

Here is an album from UK celebrity Emily Parr: