Thomas Delrue <tho...@epistulae.net> writes: > On 06/01/2015 06:19 PM, z...@manian.org wrote: >> For their notification system, FB is leveraging GPG as an identity >> provider to say" only a person who has a certain private key >> should be able to reset access credentials for this account". > > I had not thought of this and I think that this is a good point. > I do however question whether this is the purpose of this feature, I > think it is more of a side-effect. >
It may also help them reduce phishing/spamming, if enough users use it -- phony Facebook notifications are pretty common, and that's one thing this addresses pretty well. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <http://my.fsf.org/join>. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
