Facebook hack to see any photo album
php
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internet
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sql
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facebook
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Jose Luis Canciani (josecanciani at Twitter)
UPDATE 16-Jul-2009: apparently it's not working anymore! It took several weeks for facebook to fix it!
In order for Facebook to patch this, I'm writing this method that has become so popular these last days. You can see any album of any user in Facebook by following the next steps:
1) Get the person's ID: search him/her on facebook and look in the "View Frinds" link where you'll see something like this: http://www.facebook.com/friends/?id=1660869234. This number is the user's ID.
2) Go to http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php?api -> API Test Console
3) Choose "Facebook PHP Client" in Response Format.
4) Choose "fql.query" in Method.
5) Now you'll see a text area called "query": wrote there the following replacing xxxxxxxxxx with the contact's ID you find in the first step:
SELECT name, link FROM album WHERE owner=xxxxxxxxxx
6) Run the query to find all the contact's albums. Just take the URL of the album you want and paste it in your browser.
That's it! Let's hope Facebook fix it soon, but until then, enjoy looking at pictures your enemies shouldn't have uploaded ;)

is there some way to see the pictures somebody has set to invisible?