{"id":513,"date":"2006-08-05T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T01:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=513"},"modified":"2006-08-05T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T01:20:35","slug":"anyone-understand-the-myspace-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Anyone understand the MySpace “salute”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following our recent conversation<\/a> on finding the time to blog, Ted Howard<\/a> pointed me to this fascinating page<\/a> from MySpace.com:<\/p>\n

In order to verify your identity, please send us a “salute”. This means we will need an image of yourself holding a handwritten sign with the word “MySpace.com” and your Friend ID (your Friend ID number appears immediately after “friendID=” in the web address\/URL when viewing your profile). We can then remove the profile that uses your identity without your permission.<\/p>\n

Please be sure to include the web address\/URL to the profile in question when you send your salute.<\/p>\n

If you do not have a profile on MySpace please write in the email address that you are emailing us from instead of your Friend ID.<\/p>\n

If the profile is an extremely obvious attempt to be cruel\/false, you may not need to send a salute. Sending a salute will definately help expediate things, though! If you are a teacher\/faculty member at a school, please click on this link<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That's so bizarre.  I'm missing something here.  I asked Ted if he had any idea how this works:<\/p>\n

I think the MySpace \u00e2\u20ac\u0153salute\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is just a photo of yourself holding a piece of paper that has your login name on it. Apparently, they consider this to be physical proof of identity \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they have physical proof that a given face is linked to a given login name. Now, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand how this helps anything, which is why I find it interesting.<\/p>\n

What stops me from saying that your MySpace account that claims you are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kim Cameron\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a fake and then sending a picture of me holding a piece of paper with my account name that claims I am \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kim Cameron\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

Crap! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on your technical advisory team I guess. Are the benefits good?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Welcome to the team, Ted.  Someone will get back to you on the benefits question.<\/p>\n

The truth is that Ted is one of those very lucky guys who gets to program video games.  I sure would like to see him blogging about what that's like.<\/p>\n

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