Oh no
Is Graham Clulely ill?
Hope he gets better and back to work again soon. Wouldn't want to miss out on what Sophos think.
Security changes designed to curtail the spam and scams that have become endemic on Facebook over recent months have received a cautious welcome from security watchers. Facebook has introduced a raft of features including: a known-bad-site blacklist (via a partnership with crowd-sourced blacklist outfit Web of Trust); …
Seriously? For Facebook? Does anyone think that would be turned on? And then the entire point of it has gone, because they can say "we have given users two-factor authentication and they don't want it", and use that as an excuse not to give other security improvements. No, come up with a better idea than that.
That was my immediate take on this "service" as well. No flaming way in hell.
If they wanted better security they could start to support OpenID, so that you can select the level/quality of security you want by choosing teh right ID provider (also the reason why I would NEVER choose Facebook as login provider - yes, let's give them an idea where else I log in)..
.. every single App I have looked at will pillage your friend's profiles when you use it. Translated: my *cough* privacy *cough* settings don't matter much. I set all App settings to the digital equivalent of "fuck off" but spam has elevated dramatically since I used FB.
I think I'm going to change the email account and see how long it takes for new spam to arrive..