PSA - Livejournal changes

I am guessing that everyone has already seen the news post, but let me share it anyway - Livejournal now lets you crosspost to Facebook and Twitter.

The problem here is that it appears to let you post comments on locked posts over to said accounts without the account owner's permission. Which, you know, kind of sucks. The LJ team have yet to confirm this security loop actually exists, but obviously the possibility that it is there is rather worrying. Ah, I see some brave soul has done testing. Yes, it is possible to crosspost a comment you make on someone else's locked entry and thus potentially reveal the content of said entry without the consent of the journal owner. Fail. Faily faily fail. Plus obviously not all of us want the crossposting functionality.

Given just how many people are being Righteously Irritated at this, I suspect quick coding changes in the near future. However, if you are feeling this is suboptimal, do stroll over to the post I've linked to above and leave a comment explaining precisely why this is a Bad New Feature.

If you would like to read something that talks about the tech end a wee bit more, obviously the comments of the post are full of it; alextiefling has a friends-locked post on the topic; karohemd has a public one.

In case you are wondering - no, I am not planning on crosspost to Facebook and Twitter. No, I will not crosspost comments from my blog, your blog or anyone else's blog. If I find the functionality allows anyone to crosspost material that I consider delicate and that someone is exploiting that loophole, I will be Incredibly Unimpressed.

Edit: Minor clarification - I do already import my public LJ entries over to Facebook via their post-harvest thingummie, as those of you on Facebook will have noticed. Those, however, are book and film reviews, and the odd bit of politics or classics promotion. That would be why they are public.