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Re:Password Managers by tialaramex on Sunday June 06, 2021 @07:27AM (#27412372)
Facebook can invalidate all existing cookies, and with them Edward's access based on cookies. This is slightly inconvenient for users (they are logged out and need to log back in) but it locks Edward out except for where users are relying on passwords alone and Edward knows their password.

You as an individual Facebook user can also invalidate sessions you subsequently realise shouldn't exist and thus the associated cookie. Just realised you're still logged into Facebook on your mother-in-law's laptop that you used for a few minutes this afternoon? Go into Facebook privacy & security settings to see that session shown on a list, then click to log it out. If you are just worried that somebody has cloned your current session by learning the cookie value (I don't know what countermeasures, if any, Facebook use) you can log yourself out and get a new one, which of course invalidates any cloned session.

Re:Password Managers by Thorrez on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:13AM (#27418928)
Invalidating all cookies will only happen if Facebook learns of the attack. Facebook can invalidate all cookies used during the 1 hour period, and they can also invalidate all passwords used during the 1 hour period (a much smaller number) and force people to recover their accounts by other means (recovery email or phone). Yes, it would be quite painful, but it would be possible.

Most users are not motivated or knowledgeable enough to manually invalidate sessions. If a user is motivated to do that, the user could just as easily do a password change.