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Facebook Adds Two-Factor Authentication

Posted by timothy on from the your-name-and-your-real-name dept.

angry tapir writes "To help its hundreds of millions of users prevent unauthorized access to their accounts, Facebook has added an optional verification step to its log-in process. The new security feature, called Login Approvals, is a form of two-factor authentication."

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  1. Security? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's like putting a steel door on a straw house...

  2. Let me guess... by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is Facebook, so the two factors are username and password.

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  3. Re:FaceBook adds Two Factor Authentication by curtisk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Because if they steal your private data, we can't sell it to them!"

    Thats so sadly funny... Facebook isn't even the least bit shy anymore, "just give us you cell/mobile number, its for safety!" I wonder what new data correlations and connections they can now make with that extra tidbit of data in that database version of you(in the database version of the world)

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  4. Extra layer of security by ray_mccrae · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard that the two form authentication will involve both your password and verification that you've posted a derogatory story about Google to your blog.

  5. WTF is the point? by geekmux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "To help its hundreds of millions of users prevent unauthorized access to their accounts..."

    Gee, that's nice Farcebook. Now, what exactly are you going to do about your privacy policies that change with the wind, forcing users to constantly monitor their settings to prevent "authorized" access?

    Hard to feel safe in the car when you don't trust the driver no matter how many seat belts you have on.

  6. Re:Facebook stupidity.. by icebraining · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So would it be better for them not to implement it at all because you don't want to use it?

    Lots of people 1) don't live in the US, and therefore doesn't pay for incoming SMS, 2) have SMS packages or 3) don't mind paying, since it's not for every login but only when a new device is used.

    If you don't want to use it, nobody forces you to.

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  7. Re:Facebook stupidity.. by ledow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have to say - paying to receive SMS is possibly the most stupid thing I've ever heard anyone agree to. It was back when mobile phones first came out and still is now.

    The problem is not Facebook there - the problem is people who tolerate a stupid system where you can end up paying for something you never asked for.