This was done for Tunisia where the goverment sstole peoples identity and then erased accounts. There is an article about this in The Atlantic. When Facebook discovered that a large store of accounts had their passwords stolen because they were sending them in clear text, they did 2 things
1. Create a query asking who is this person for anybody whose account had been comprimised by the goverenment. 2. Enabled HTTPS for facebook so that passwords could not be stolen. So if the entire reason for the queries is to ensure your account has not been hijacked, then just using the HTTPS should be sufficient. Jon On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Keith Watson wrote: >> What's not true? That we cannot access Captcha's or that Facebook is going >> to implement this as a security measure? Well I will give you the Captcha >> access having a work around, if it were a normal Captcha. We could then go >> through the hoops of sending it off to a service to have some sighted person >> tell us what it is then put it in. Or listen to some convoluted audio crap >> that someone with any hearing difficulty at all can make neither heads nor >> tales of. But in this case the Captcha schema that Facebook HAS, note the >> caps on that "HAS", implemented is not of this type. They are using pictures >> of people that you have friended as the Captcha. How is someone that you >> don't know going to tell you who that picture of Scott Howell picking his >> nose is? And don't give me the line about just ask someone sighted in your >> house to assist. Some of us live alone and do not wish to rely on sightlings >> for help. > > Above I capitalized the word has. I did this because last night I again > caught the Friday edition of TNT and a caller verified that Facebook was > already rolling out this schema. I have not yet run into it, but am just > waiting for the first time that I do. Will probably be the last time I use > Facebook. > > Thoughts? > > Keith >> > > On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: > >> not true. >> On Jan 27, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Thomas Watson wrote: >> >>> Tom, >>> >>> Caught your story yesterday about Facebook adding Captcha to the users >>> login. Those of us who are visually challenged are not able to access >>> Captcha's in any way. So this means that we will no longer be able to >>> log into our Facebook accounts if this measure is implemented. I would >>> think that adding some sort of question and answer schema would be >>> just as secure and still allow the blind community to access their >>> social media. >>> >>> Hopefully this venue and my other emails to various lists will bring >>> light to an already dark situation. >>> >>> Love the show. >>> Keith Watson >>> 813-760-1381 >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> Maurice Mines >> min...@me.com >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
