Many parts of Facebook such as chat, messaging and posting statuses are written in Javascript/AJAX. This requires a lot of calls to the server to constantly have the most up-to-date information. To speed things up, Facebook stores some of the AJAX data in temporary files on the person's computer. These files can contain valuable forensic … Continue reading Facebook Chat Forensics
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The Perils of JavaScript Objects
A few days ago I was desperately trying to solve a bug which made no sense. In most circumstances everything worked fine, but then when you added more data, everything broke. Steven eventually discovered it was because I was overriding my JavaScript object's length attribute causing problems when trying to loop over every element in the object. … Continue reading The Perils of JavaScript Objects
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