Re:Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:52AM
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Because most people need to be protected against themselves; a lot of people, even tech savvy ones, only find out later that their data has been stolen or their privacy breached.
I mean a random but common example is stolen credit card details. Out of automatism most people will fill those in when they're ordering something, without wondering whether the site is secure. And usually they are secure enough at the time of writing, only a few years down the line someone dumps them onto a public S3 bucket by accident. Whoops. If the system was secure by default - that is, CC data never passing to the webshop - that would be a preventable occasion.
Email in this case is the same - don't give FB access to your emails in the first place and they'll never be able to "accidentally" read all your emails.
I mean a random but common example is stolen credit card details. Out of automatism most people will fill those in when they're ordering something, without wondering whether the site is secure. And usually they are secure enough at the time of writing, only a few years down the line someone dumps them onto a public S3 bucket by accident. Whoops. If the system was secure by default - that is, CC data never passing to the webshop - that would be a preventable occasion.
Email in this case is the same - don't give FB access to your emails in the first place and they'll never be able to "accidentally" read all your emails.