LJ Peeping Toms
May 25, 2004
Every time I post a picture or image, my web server logs are immediately overrun with dozens of entries like this:
[www.halfline.org] 137.186.164.231 – – [21/May/2004:22:30:05 -1000] “GET /luau/luau3.jpg HTTP/1.1” 304 – “http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~mdaddyz/ljfun/lj.php” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8”
When I visit the URLs specified in the referrer portion of the log entries (in the example above the url with the student page at rutgers), I am confronted with hoardes of pictures from anon-posts from random people. That’s right, people have LJ image aggregators setup to display all the images everyone shows in their anonymous posts. Furthermore, there are a lot of different aggregators and there are a lot of people viewing each one.
It seems that LJ is a voyeurs’ hotspot, so everyone should be careful of the pictures they divulge.