mrgan: Dan Wineman on Facebook’s “social authentication” feature: Now suppose I’m a hacker trying to break into your account, and I’m presented with this challenge. How hard would it be to look up those six people in your (public by default) friend list, and use their (required to be public) profile pictures to solve the puzzle?

mrgan:

Dan Wineman on Facebook’s “social authentication” feature:

Now suppose I’m a hacker trying to break into your account, and I’m presented with this challenge. How hard would it be to look up those six people in your (public by default) friend list, and use their (required to be public) profile pictures to solve the puzzle?

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Posted at 11:46 AM 30 January 2011
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    I have to agree. I recently re-opened my Facebook account with the explicit purpose of keeping in touch with those...
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    I take back the “clever” part of what I said about this. Which just leaves creepy.
  7. sgtstretch reblogged this from dwineman and added:
    Haha, Facebook is stupid. That is all.In other words, stop using Facebook, dumbass.
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    Admittedly, matching the displayed pictures to a public profile image can be extremely difficult. If the person shares...
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