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Well apparently MySpace isn’t completely dead and trying to hold on to it’s still ever growing population of ((spam)) users by throwing a block party! That’s right, MySpace’s Tom is throwing a block party in LA as described in his bulletin:

party with me tomorrow in los angeles
Jul 14, 2007 1:23 AM EST
“well, van nuys.. haha we’re having a MYSPACE BLOCK PARTY, YO!It all starts tomorrow at 10am in Van Nuys; we’ve got the entire block to ourselves for this huge event. Check out the celebs, the models, and all the pimped out rides, plus the vendors showcasing their latest and greatest in the automotive industry.
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Performances: DJ Skribble, Mims, Sean Kingston, Spider Loc, Lil Fizz and DJ Eque
Hosted by: Aubrey from Danity Kane , Vida Guerra
When: Saturday, July 14th @ 10am-6pm
Location: Van Nuys (near the airport)
16152 Saticoy St.
Van Nuys, CA 91406
(818) 997-9013
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For more info go to myspace.com/fdmotoring
woooo!
THIS EVENT IS ABSOLUTELY FREE, BUT PLEASE BRING A CANNED FOOD ITEM TO DONATE!”

So if you happen to be in the LA area or nearby consider stopping by and coming back here to tell me all about it you might find and meet up with some interesting people. But on a side note, what caught my eye was that the profile Tom promoted was hosted by the advertising client themselves and soon fdmotoring.com found themselves completely flooded and quickly denying requests left and right giving visitors a VERY slow response times much less any image content.

Ah the power of the masses. Send every emotional, jock, joe, jane, sam on myspace in the middle of the summer on a friday night to one page at the same moment and there’s bound to be something interesting to come out of it. Imagine also sending a single bulletin to over 190,082,914 people too. Well now at least it has settled out.

haha, good stuff.

One of the interesting topics that came up during our discussion was the take down of a security related website (seclists) that contains thousands of email list archives (Story). The reason was because a list of approximately 56,000 myspace usernames and passwords was published by a user of the website (Remember afterall it is an email list archive). From that, we wondered- How did these hackers get ahold of these usernames and passwords?

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