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A lot of my friends have reported that their facebook login passwords were *HACKED* - Really!!  Recently I got a suspicious looking email that had an zip/archive attachment.  The from address read “Facebook-Manager” to make it look legit.  I saw this from my corporate email account in a cafe and when I got back home, my email client downloaded this email and the attachment was immediately removed by my Anti-Virus.  Kudos to my well-updated anti-virus software.  Here are some KEY points:

* Facebook does not update your password for any reason.
* Except you nobody knows your password (unless you let them know), and not even facebook has your password.  Why? because they are digest-encrypted and stored in the database.
* Facebook verifies if your password is correct only at the time of login and only when the digest-encryption of the password you enter at login matches the digest-encryption in the database.. So your password is never seen in plain-text and it is impossible for a human to read a password that’s already encrypted.

So, the only way to know your password is by getting it from you making you type or say in places other than FaceBook.com.  Do you disagree?

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