This is Part 2 of my look into some Facebook spam. First post is here. Decyphering the code I was bored, so I tried to decipher the code. What is this \x69\x6E\x6E\x65… stuff? Well, that’s easy. It’s the hexadecimal representation of the ASCII code for some letters/symbols. Decoding that isn’t too difficult. Placing the JS function “alert();” around the text will pop up the text as the browser sees it (once it’s decoded the hex into the actual letters.

I split this into a couple posts because it’s a bit long. The Pitch So someone (let’s not point any fingers) “suggested” I might like “How to know who blocked me ?”, a random Facebook Page. Now, ignoring the bad grammar, I took a look anyway. What we have is this lovely set of instructions: OK, OK, wait… Those are the instructions? Seriously? Let’s point out a few reasons why you probably shouldn’t follow those instructions:

So, it seems the Facebook has finally added support for logging in to their Chat via XMPP. This is, of course, awesome so people stop asking about it, but also terrible since it took them so darn long. That meant a lot of horrible hacks just to get it working in the interim. (No offence Eion, I just mean the scraping, not the code.) This announcement comes straight from the developer blog.