Facebook monetizes 2FA, Singapore monetizes hacker, and ransomware creeps monetize US Democrats

"help target the ads, selecting places you have shopped at"

Here we go again. Ads telling me about stuff/places I ALREADY FUCKING KNOW ABOUT.

And marketers STILL wonder why folk use adblock etc al.

Privacy is theft

"Ben can’t access his shadow contact information, because that would violate Anna’s privacy, according to Facebook,"

That's one of the most twisted interpretation of privacy ever seen. No surprise it comes from Facebook.

Thanks Facebook for proving me right.

There are plenty of websites which claim to have 2FA but instead send SMS codes, and I don't use them precisely because I don't trust them with my number, they'll either leak it or sell it.

SMS costs real money so they've got to get it back somehow.

All anyone needs is a TOTP-compatible code and they can bring their own authenticator.

"a huge disincentive [..] to set up a 2FA option"

Well FaceBook is a huge disincentive. With its history of ignoring the law and any sense of morals as long as it can get away with it (and a bit longer if possible), I am astounded at the number of people who blissfully continue to give Zuck their private life, giftwrapped.

And with all the information easily found on the Internet, with all the proof of its shady behavior, I'm sorry if I consider that people don't really have the right to complain any more. You put your life on FaceBook, you know Zuck is going to aggregate it, mine it and sell as much of it as he can.

" login credentials for the hotel's telnet"

Telnet? Seriously? The hotel really should get a fine too, using telnet nowadays is a crime against technology...

Family and friends still wonder why I don't use FB or any other form of SM.

Not sure who the real criminals are in the Ransonware story, the hackers who want $30,000 or MS who want $700,000 to fix it. Surely if your willing to pay 3/4 of a million to MS it is worth trying to pay the $30,000 in bitcoins to the hackers first and possibly save yourself $630,000 if the hackers give up the encryption keys.