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Today in Facebook Blunders: They’re Asking New Users for Their Email Passwords?
Kevin Poulsen at The Daily Beast:
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.“
This is some Nigerian Prince email level bullshit.
Wednesday April 3, 2019