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Discussion on: This Facebook Security Breach was "Intended Functionality"

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Michael MacTaggert

Preventing users from taking actions that hurt themselves is also a part of security. If you can't think of a reasonable situation wherein a user would want to forward an automatic login, then why give them the option to shoot themselves in the foot and then blame them for firing?

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Ricardo Rincón

They aren't giving them that option. That is out of Facebook's scope. They sent a password recovery e-mail. If you received it and use your e-mail client to forward it to someone else and they get into your account, hey that's on you buddy.

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Michael MacTaggert • Edited

>They aren't giving them that option.
>If you [do that option], hey that's on you buddy.

That's a contradictory, unreasonably user-hostile perspective.