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[the_wanderer]

Okay, it's really gosh darn aggravating that any financial site (credit card, bank) or even sites like Facebook (!!) log the IP address you login from and when you login from one they don't recognize they treat you as if your account has been compromised. Can I turn this off at all on Facebook? Of course not! [1

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[bluesbodger]

On the plus side, I think Facebook's "here, re-tag some of your friends" system is a pretty decent approach to making you prove that you are who you say you are.

I suppose it doesn't protect against account compromise by people who know your social circle well, and I haven't checked whether it works at all for blind people, but still.

[the_wanderer]

Hrm, it hasn't done that so far for me - thus far the security test has been to enter birthdate which had always failed, and then it would ask me the same security question about a family member.

This time I actually remembered to check the birthdate and I guess for whatever reason I had set it 62 years before my actual year, which is why that test was failing. So I guess on the next library IP I'll see the re-tagging.

[whetherwoman]

Huh. I get on fb from home, work, and my phone, and it's never asked me for verification yet. Maybe it's a certain threshold of multiple IP addresses. Which... I don't actually mind. And especially wouldn't mind if I was traveling and logging on from public computers, when it's even easier for people to hack my accounts.