Word: facebooked
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...standard "What's your mother's maiden name?" query, widely used for verification purposes by many banks and e-mail services. These days, security questions are getting more creative because they have to. As we make more and more personal information freely available online via our blogs, Facebook profiles, Flickr photos and Twitter, security questions based on biographical data are becoming less and less secure...
...This is an attack that any 17-year-old in America could have mounted," says Ariel Rabkin, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied and written about online security, including a paper subtitled "Security Questions in the Era of Facebook." Rabkin adds, "You could do it in your living room drunk on the spur of the moment...
...questions are declining in popularity vs. those that relate to the user's preferences. But even preference questions aren't foolproof. Your favorite book? Fine, unless it's the Bible, in which case it's easily guessable. Your favorite album? Fine, unless it happens to be mentioned on your Facebook page...
...ever,” Castellanos said. “The role of gatekeeper of information has changed.” Castellanos emphasized the important role that youth would play in changing the face of politics, noting that “government is going to look a lot more like Facebook and eBay in the future.” “Undergrads are going to build the post-industrial politics,” he said in an interview after the event, adding that the new politics would be “ground-up” and “based...
Since late July, growing numbers of Facebook users have logged into their accounts and found profiles that they haven’t recognized. The confusion was not the work of identity thieves, but Facebook’s own developers, who unveiled a major redesign to the site. According to its creators, “New Facebook” was designed to make the users experience easier, but for the biggest fans of what is now “Old Facebook,” the change is another one of the social networking Web site’s recent mistakes. Isidore...