UPDATE: Please read.

Thank you, Amy, for adding to this conversation.

As per your good (and arguable) point, here are links offering:

• historical information about previous security flaws in FetLife,
• an essay about the sociocultural dangers of FetLife,
• a (very long) exposition on the intersecting concepts of censorship, capitalism, and sex-negativity as it relates to sexuality information online, which also discusses FetLife explicitly,
• and even more technical information about FetLife’s various bullshit “privacy” protection.

There are actually even more links discussing the issue, but whenever I put many links in a post I get accused of being a “blog whore”, on top of getting ignored. So, for context, here’s why those links were omitted from the post before. (Frozen.)

amydentata:

So this post has been making the rounds, and some information has been missing from the dialogue. This is a known security issue that has been brought up to and unaddressed by FetLife administrators, and has already been taken advantage of before this. There are apparently a lot of security issues with FetLife, and numerous other problems that have gone ignored. This was an (IMO successful) attempt to get people finally pay attention. So keep that in mind next time you use FetLife–your information is not secure, and wasn’t secure even before this proxy was made.

maymay:

Every single page on FetLife.com now has a publicly visible mirror. A simple URL substitution pattern can be used to make an arbitrary FetLife page visible to everyone.

• Replace https://fetlife.com with http://fetlife.maybemaimed.com/proxy.php?page=

So, for example, to see the events page, ordinarily at:

• https://fetlife.com/events

Simply point your browser to:

• http://fetlife.maybemaimed.com/proxy.php?page=/events

This works on any arbitrary content within FetLife, as well. For instance, to view the group post at:

• https://fetlife.com/groups/53559/group_posts/2811205

Simply point your browser to:

• http://fetlife.maybemaimed.com/proxy.php?page=/groups/53559/group_posts/2811205

See the pattern?

If you’re savvy, you can download the code and run a copy of this proxy on your own website, too.

Enjoy.

See also:

• A listing of FetLife accounts with passwords.
• Unofficial FetLife API.
• How to use the FetLife Export tool to download a backup of your FetLife account history

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