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There seems to a lot of confusion, both in the article and in the comments, about the "3 trusted friends" password recovery. You have to manually select your tr
by anorwell 15y ago
There seems to a lot of confusion, both in the article and in the comments, about the "3 trusted friends" password recovery. You have to manually select your trusted friends [1]. A fake account mimicking one of your friends will not be a "trusted friend" unless you make him or her one.
Furthermore, this is an opt-in feature.
[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=119897751441086 https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=119897751441086
- bproper 15y agoYou need to trick an account into accepting three fake friends, since those users will receive the code to change the password. Hardly seems like obvious security flaw, more like a long, complicated piece of social engineering. Which is what all hackers do.... http://www.hackersonlineclub.com/hack-facebook-account http://www.hackersonlineclub.com/hack-facebook-account
- anorwell 15y agoYou need to trick an account into adding three fake friends as "trusted friends", a feature that most people do not know about or use. This is much harder getting someone to friend three fake accounts.