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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by dannyw on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:16PM (#16675490)
I hope so, but keep in mind Facebook has a magical password that worked for every account for almost a decade.
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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by cornellwright on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:20PM (#16675504)
Source?
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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by iamdave on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:23PM (#16675524)
http://theweek.com/articles/474339/facebookinsider-memoir-sk...
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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by cornellwright on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:37PM (#16675615)
I think the previous commenter must have meant "had" as that says as of sometime before the 2012 date on that article the master password allegedly no longer worked.

Still egregious if that sort of early stage stuff hung around that long, but not the same as it being there today.

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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by prostoalex on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:58AM (#16679817)
That password only worked from Facebook's corporate IP addresses.
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