Clearing a few things up

I thought I should do this as I still get the occasional email asking about the hack

• The original hack to see private profile’s albums no longer works as facebook have blocked up that hole. It was done using the photo_comments.php page
• This userscript allows you to see some of the pictures that people in your primary network are tagged in.  This does NOT show ALL their pictures, but it shows at least some.  Don’t listen to the people in the comments that says it doesn’t work; I use it and I can say it works great. (Don’t email me or the userscript’s creator about how to install it, just use google)
• The teaser trick still works.

photo_comments.php

Update!! Facebook patched it! gosh that was quicker than I expected. the hack no longer works on people with private profiles. there’s nothing that will work at the moment, but if anything should come up in the future… i might not consider posting it on the net haha! In case anyone is wondering, from what i can tell it took around 11 hours from the time i posted this to when the hole was patched.

The original post follows:

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So here it is.

First you need the person’s facebook ID and you can get that from the ‘Add as Friend’ Button. Then type this in your browser address:

http://www.facebook.com/photo_comments.php?id=[IDNUMBER]

you’ll then get a list of all the photos that that person has in public albums which have comments on. Upon clicking on one of the pictures, you can then access the whole of that album by using the Prev | Next navigation buttons or by using this greasemonkey script to see the whole album on one page http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9580

Remember, this only works if the user has not set any privacy settings on their albums. Also remember that their friends are also likely to have pictures of them so use the url manipulation on them too and see what you can find.

P.s. There is no greasemonkey script because i couldn’t be bothered to make one