Tom Joad's dashboard

Date: 12/07/09

Description:

You have a robotic porn spammer on Brightkite. A bot named mylesbrw has posted 103 links to dirty porn. This user has no friends.

http://brightkite.com/people/mylesbrw

Date: 12/02/09

Out of control spammer is on the loose on Brightkite.

This user:

http://brightkite.com/people/mestr

Has 32,387 messages, all tagged to an intersection in Las Vegas.

Dear Brightkite:

You've got a spammer for a "debt relief" website called http://debt1options.com/

The user "financehelp" on Brightkite appears to be a total spammer. You might want to consider removing this user.

Repro:

1. Look at this user: http://brightkite.com/people/financehelp
2. Note that every post links back to the questionable website called http://debt1options.com/

Result: The brightkite user "financehelp" appears to be a spam bot thing. Please look at: http://brightkite.com/people/financehelp

Expected: That this user: http://brightkite.com/people/financehelp will be removed

Brightkite:

Looks like you've got a porn spammer.

http://brightkite.com/people/ihservices

Date: 11/04/09

Description:

This is strange. On Brightkite web today, I got this bizarre error message five times in a row after I did a “People” search while not signed in.

I ran a people search of a word, followed by a single press of the space bar. An error message kept appearing.

I got this several times. Then I went back, tried it again, with both “Places” and “Posts”, and I did not get it to repro.

Went back, tried it one last time, and it happened again.

Repro Steps:
1. (log out of account – clear cache, etc.) Navigate to www.brightkite.com
2. From the Brightkite.com home page, move mouse to the input box in upper right
3. Select “People” from the drop down list
4. Click inside of the box
5. Enter in any name
6. REQURIED: Enter a single press of the <spacebar> button after entering name, press <enter>

Result: While not signed into an account, if the user enters in text – followed by a press of the <spacebar> button – on the home page, an odd error message occasionally appears

Expected: No odd error message after "People" searches while not signed in

NOTE: This is the text of the error message:

Search People

You can search for people that fulfill a variety of criteria by passing parameters to the following URL:

http://brightkite.com/people.[ xml | json | plist ]

Parameters:
gender - limit results to this gender, valid options are male, female (optional)
age_from - starting age in years, use in conjunction with age_to, e.g. 23 (optional)
age_to - ending age in years, use in conjunction with age_from, e.g. 55 (optional)
age_to - ending age in years, use in conjunction with age_from, e.g. 55 (optional)
name - text search on name, e.g. Martin (optional)
tags - text search on tags, e.g. hockey (optional)
q - text search on both tags and name (optional)
with_photo - only return people who have an avatar photo, boolean (optional)
person_id - limit results to people that person_id has a certain relationship with, use in conjunction with who (optional)
who - limit results to people that person_id has a certain relationship with, valid options are friends, fans, blocked (optional)
place_id - Brightkite place ID, use either standalone or in conjunction with radius (optional)
latitude - latitude, use in conjunction with longitude and radius (optional)
longitude - longitude, use in conjunction with latitude and radius (optional)
sw_lat - geographical bounding box, SW corner latitude, use in conjunction with other bounding box inputs (optional)
sw_lng - geographical bounding box, SW corner longitude, use in conjunction with other bounding box inputs (optional)
ne_lat - geographical bounding box, NE corner latitude, use in conjunction with other bounding box inputs (optional)
ne_lng - geographical bounding box, NE corner longitude, use in conjunction with other bounding box inputs (optional)
since - only list users who have updated their location since this RFC822 timestamp (optional)
since_ts - only list users who have updated their location since this UNIX timestamp (optional)
hours_ago - only list users who have updated their location in the last X hours, e.g. 5 (optional)
offset - list results starting at a certain offset, used for pagination, e.g. 10 (optional)
limit - return up to X results, used for pagination, maximum is 100, e.g. 30 (optional)
Example Call:
Example Result:
</spacebar></enter></spacebar>

Date: 11/04/09

Brightkite iPhone Version: 2.1

Description:

NOTE: Just look at attached screenshots.

This one is easier shown via screenshots than described, but there is a 100 percent way to crash the Brightkite v. 2.1 iPhone application. This might have started with the arrival of the booze advertisements.

Immediately after launching the Brightkite v. 2.1 on the iPhone, the user is taken to a screen where their profile picture will appear in the upper left hand corner of the screen. If the user presses the profile picture icon (before it has loaded) the user will be taken to a screen which refers to the user as “(null)”.

If the user exits from this screen, the application crashes.

Repro Steps:
1. From the iPhone home menu, launch Brightkite Version 2.1
2. As application is loading, quickly press the area where your profile picture is to appear
3. Let it sit on screen with “(null)’s stream” present
4. Press the “Home” button

Result: The Brightkite iPhone application (version 2.1) will crash if the user selects the profile picture area before the user’s picture has loaded, and then allows the application to sit on a screen with “(null)’s stream” present

Expected: No crash

Repro rate: 5/5 (on this iPhone, at least)