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Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it

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Post by tjoff » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 9:31 AM UTC

abritinthebay wrote: post #141

tjoff wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the only proper way to do that identification is to go through the registered mail.

Given how many times I've had registered mail delivery screw up... no.

There is NO WAY I'd EVER give facebook or any other random internet service any real identification (that includes phone number).

Forcing someone to provide real identification for a service that didn't require it to sign up in the first place is just ludicrous.

For all intents and purposes my email is the sole identification available for a service like facebook. Further, a passport picture isn't worth squat because there is nothing linking my email to it anyway (and a passport picture can easily be forged or copied).

Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it

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Post by type0 » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 11:00 AM UTC

bigbugbag wrote: post #72

gargravarr wrote: post #58

This is concerning since I had assumed the data contained in 'inactive' accounts would eventually be deleted. I closed my own account in 2011 because I found no benefit to having one. Given how difficult it was to close my account the first time around, I'm now expecting to receive a similar email. Why would they hold onto all this data for years after the account was closed? They're not going to be able to glean any…

You certainly fooled yourself in assuming that, it is, at least I thought it was, common knowledge that facebook does not delete a single thing ever they just disable it for user access. I seems to remember this was exposed a few years back with the introduction of a "past memories" features or something that mistakenly took some of the supposedly deleted content and put it in the spotlight. They hold onto this data…

> ... common knowledge that facebook does not delete a single thing ever they just disable it for user access.

That is correct, I remember there even was a presentation video from one of FBs engineers describing exactly that, also that they intended to burn that data to long time storage archival discs (probably already are). I have no time to look for that video but if someone knows what it was called please link to it, it should be somewhere on the youtubes.

Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it

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Post by abritinthebay » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 5:24 PM UTC

tjoff wrote: post #161

abritinthebay wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given how many times I've had registered mail delivery screw up... no.

There is NO WAY I'd EVER give facebook or any other random internet service any real identification (that includes phone number). Forcing someone to provide real identification for a service that didn't require it to sign up in the first place is just ludicrous. For all intents and purposes my email is the sole identification available for a service like facebook. Further, a passport picture isn't worth squat because…

That's fair, but that wasn't really my point.

Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it

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Post by tjoff » Wed, Mar 29, 2017, 1:55 PM UTC

abritinthebay wrote: post #163

tjoff wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is NO WAY I'd EVER give facebook or any other random internet service any real identification (that includes phone number). Forcing someone to provide real identification for a service that didn't require it to sign up in the first place is just ludicrous. For all intents and purposes my email is the sole identification available for a service like facebook. Further, a passport picture isn't worth squat because…

That's fair, but that wasn't really my point.

Well, what would be the alternative then?

Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it

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Post by 01000001 » Mon, Apr 03, 2017, 3:05 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #62

01000001 wrote: post #46

This is why every site should have it's own unique, strong password.

"its own" And yes it should, and expendable passwords because the world is filled with morons who "encrypt" your password with rot13 or one round of unsalted md5 (but your better follow their "strong password rules")

Thanks for the correction. You know, I was once taught, quite poorly, that the apostrophe is used for possession, and when I'm not mindful about it, my brain makes this jump that when referring to something that "belongs" to whatever "it" refers to, that it therefore possesses this thing and therefore should have an apostrophe.

If I think about writing, I write its, but when I'm thinking what I want to write and my fingers just type it, it is like a layer of execution intercepts that thought and correct it.

I guess that's just the brain and one of its features, it's nuts.

Getting back to the subject, this is one of the biggest issues, idiots who hold our data and yet don't add salts to their encryption because salt is bad for you.