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Re: [Link Posting] ?Beyond Sketchy': Facebook Demanding Some New Users' Email Passwords

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On 2019-04-05, Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
> On 03/04/2019 21:22, RS Wood wrote:
>> On 2019-04-03, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>>>   Facebook users are being interrupted by an interstitial demanding
>>>>   they provide the password for the email account they gave to
>>>>   Facebook when signing up. "To continue using Facebook, you'll need
>>>>   to confirm your email," the message demands. "Since you signed up
>>>>   with [email address], you can do that automatically ... "
>>>>
>>>>   A form below the message asked for the users' "email password."
>>>>
>>>>   "That's beyond sketchy," security consultant Jake Williams told the
>>>>   Daily Beast. "They should not be taking your password or handling
>>>>   your password in the background. If that's what's required to sign
>>>>   up with Facebook, you're better off not being on Facebook."
>>>>
>> 
>> Far be it for me to defend Facebook, and I think they're sketchy too,
>> but I find increasingly computer users struggle with even basic tasks
>> requiring computer literacy, and FB is increasingly dealing with new
>> markets of people with less computer literacy than even that ... they're
>> trying to make it easy.
>> 
>> That said, it's still shocking.
>> 
> Expect to start receiving spam emails from friends whose email is now 
> being intercepted by Facebook.
>
> Does this now mean we all have to start putting corporate style 
> disclaimers onto our personal emails?
>
> "The above message is a private correspondence between myself and the 
> Usenet readers of comp.misc. Use of this message by a Corporation or 
> other business entity is expressly forbidden. Blah blah blah."

You can if you want. No-one will pay the slightest attention.


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[Link Posting] ?Beyond Sketchy': Facebook Demanding Some New Users' Email Passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-03 11:19 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] ?Beyond Sketchy': Facebook Demanding Some New Users' Email Passwords Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-03 12:20 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] ?Beyond Sketchy': Facebook Demanding Some New Users' Email Passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-03 14:20 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] ?Beyond Sketchy': Facebook Demanding Some New Users' Email Passwords RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-03 16:22 -0400
    Re: [Link Posting] ?Beyond Sketchy': Facebook Demanding Some New Users' Email Passwords Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-04-05 10:20 +0100
      Re: [Link Posting] ?Beyond Sketchy': Facebook Demanding Some New Users' Email Passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 10:09 +0000

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