I believe this has to do with the privacy changes last month, which made it so that Friends Lists can no longer be hidden.<p>After an initial backlash, Facebook made it relatively easy to remove your friends list from public search results, but it sounds like it isn't actually blocking access to them — they're just harder to find.<p>From Facebook's blog post ( <a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=197943902130" rel="nofollow">http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=197943902130</a> ):<p>"In response to your feedback, we've improved the Friend List visibility option described below. Now when you uncheck the "Show my friends on my profile" option in the Friends box on your profile, your Friend List won't appear on your profile regardless of whether people are viewing it while logged into Facebook or logged out. This information is still publicly available, however, and can be accessed by applications. "