In a post entitled "How Almost Anyone Can Take You Off Facebook (And Lock You Out)," BuzzFeed editor Katie Notopoulos demonstrates that it only takes a minute to deactivate someone's Facebook account, assuming someone with the same name died recently. Dropping a recent obituary URL and your friend's email address into a "Memorialization" form can register their account as deceased and disable them from being able to log in.
It took about a day before victim (and fellow BuzzFeed editor) John Herrman was unable to access Facebook, he told The Verge, which implies Facebook did attempt to verify and confirm the memorialization request. "It's not automatic," Herrman says. Once denied log-in to Facebook, Herrman clicked a button to...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/4/3835666/facebook-memorial-page-vulnerability-dead-account
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