How to See Tagged Photos from Anyone on Facebook

In a recent article, post by Brettz on brettz.com, it is fully explained a bug on Facebook which allowed anybody to see tagged photos from anyone on facebook even if they are private or in different network from you.

Unfortunately for some, fortunately for others, this bug was quite quickly fixed by Facebook (even if it seems that there still is something to do with google query like: “facebook.com/*********.php?pid=********* site:www.facebook.com” or more complex queries which might be explained in a future article).

Below is a idea of how it worked:

You first needed to find the id of the facebook user from who you wanted to see the tagged pictures.

This id was, and is still, found in the POST variables of the URL (when you click, for instance, on a user profile). For instance in the following URL:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789

the id would be 123456789.