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Topic: Facebook app now compromises SMS-based 2 factor authentication (Read 626 times)

legendary
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Let the chips fall where they may.
The new facebook App asks for a lot of new permissions. Among them is "Read your text messages (SMS or MMS)".

This breaks the SMS-based 2 factor authentication used by many Bitcoin services. This means that if Facebook somehow gets your login passphrase (you do use a different one for each website, don't you?), they can now steal all of your Bitcoin stored in those services.

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