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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

#17733 — [Link Posting] ?Beyond Sketchy': Facebook Demanding Some New Users' Email Passwords

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<URL:https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demanding-som
e-new-users-email-passwords>

The text below is a quotation from the URL above:
>
>  Just two weeks after admitting it stored hundreds of millions of its
>  users' own passwords insecurely, Facebook is demanding some users fork
>  over the password for their outside email account as the price of
>  admission to the social network.
>
>  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."
>
>  ...

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#17735

On 2019-04-03, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
><URL:https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demanding-som
> e-new-users-email-passwords>

I still don't understand the attraction of this Facetube thing or
whatever the hell it is. Looked real bad to me from the outset.

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#17737

Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> wrote:
> On 2019-04-03, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>><URL:https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demanding-som
>> e-new-users-email-passwords>
> 
> I still don't understand the attraction of this Facetube thing or
> whatever the hell it is. Looked real bad to me from the outset.

Nor do I, nor do I have a faceplant account.

I always saw it as the next "AOL" - and I always looked down on AOL.

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#17744

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.

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#17760

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."

-- 
Bruce Horrocks
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(bruce at scorecrow dot com)

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#17762

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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