Facebook's Unique Security Feature

Be fair, attentive, and customers
will return.

Facebook's unique security feature
has the goal of stopping hackers
from exploring user's personal
information.

The feature will recognize computers/
mobile phones that are permitted access
to Facebook accounts.

In case of unauthorized activity, log-ins,
a user is sent an e-mail or text message so
he/she can take action- stop the hacker before
information is stolen.

Let's say you're not at home, but you want to
access your Facebook account. You jump-on aunt
Molly's computer, or cousin's Ada's cell phone,
but worry it's a new device.

You'll, still, be able to access your Facebook
account. You'll, simply, have to answer a security
question.

"We're confident that these new tools and systems
will do a lot to prevent unauthorized logins and
the nuisance they can cause," Lev Popov, a Facebook
software engineer, wrote in a company blog post.
"As always, though, the first line of defense is
you. We need you to help by practicing safe behavior
on Facebook and wherever you go online."

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100517090717writ.nb/topstory.html

"Facebook's Glitch"

Be fair, attentive, and customers
will return.

On Wednesday, users found a gate-way
to their Facebook friends private chat
conversations. Facebook closed the gate-
way, hole. This new glitch heightened
feelings of mistrust for the service to
safe-guard personal information.

"For a service that has grown as
dramatically as we have grown, that now
assists with more than 400 million people
sharing billions of pieces of content with
their friends and the institutions they care
about, we think our track record for security
and safety is unrivaled," explained Elliot
Schrage, company's vice president for public
policy. "Are we perfect? Of course not."

Readers can submit questions for Mr. Schrage
on Bits, The Times' technology blog.

This latest glitch puts Facebook in the middle of
talks about the use of personal information by web
sites. "While this breach appears to be relatively
small, it's inopportunely timed," declared Augie
Ray, an analyst with Forrester Research. "It
threatens to undermine what Facebook hopes to
achieve with its network over the next few years,
because users have to ask whether it is a platform
worthy of their trust."

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