I was confused at first because I use Facebook in a different browser, so it just gave me the login screen.
Interestingly, the string of numbers is a real user id. I presume it defaults to your own profile because facebook.com/profile.php goes to your own profile, and fb simply ignores the malformed parameters.
Nope, the trick is that he's skipping the "id=" part between the '?' and the user ID, so the param is not being passed properly and thus the link is processed as just 'profile.php' without params. The link https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=yaddayadda would work propperly.
Didn't know that one :)
Re:We know what you're doing
by drivingmenuts on Monday June 25, 2012 @10:46PM
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Um, your goat is trying to eat your head or something.
That said, nice goat!
Re:We know what you're doing
by Killswitch on Monday June 25, 2012 @11:19PM
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I don't want to sound gay or anything, but you're handsome... Oh and the guy who's neck your kissing looks okay too.
The link I posted is just a generic bad id link that ends up redirecting to your own Facebook profile if you are currently logged into Facebook. Anyone logged into Facebook will see their own profile.
The link joering2 posted OTOH is actually to my Facebook profile. But:
A) I don't really care (anything I put on my Facebook profile is assumed to be 1000% publically available information anyway).
B) Turnabout is fair play