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I can confirm that this happened to a friend when accesin facebook from another country. Also I remember reading an article (from HN) where some guy hacked a f

by singold 13y ago

I can confirm that this happened to a friend when accesin facebook from another country. Also I remember reading an article (from HN) where some guy hacked a facebook account (if I recall correctly) and that was one of the steps (he and the hacked one where friends and coworkers so they had lots of friends in commmon)

VLM 13y ago
Hmm, well hopefully just one of many steps and not "that's all it takes". I'm no FB fan, but if they are using friends pictures as a CAPTCHA to verify the authenticator is a human not a automated computer, I grudgingly tip my hat in respect toward them. That would be much more elegant than the usual lame CAPTCHA. This strikes me as it may become more of a problem as kids abandon FB and older people use it. The kid I sat next to in middle school lunchroom back when Reagan was president, and I clicked "yes" on his friend request out of guilt, well, I have no idea what the heck he looks like now. Ex-girlfriends? Well, I remember really well how she looked when she was 19, but that was a long time ago, and...