Facebook launches a special USB key for secure connection

sivertime — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:06:01 +0000

Are you suspicious about Facebook? The social network today intends to help you feel safe when you connect: all this through a USB key.
The editorial Air of melty you spoke just a few days, even if you’re the type freaked at the idea that everything you tell on Facebook can be used against you, it is useless to post a message like “hereby, I forbid to Facebook blah” . In the eyes of the law, it simply does not serve anything. No panic however, officially, everything you post on the social network belongs to you. The conditions of use specify that “the content and information you post on Facebook belong to you, and you can control how [the network] shared [e] your content through the privacy settings and applications” , as reports the website Frandroid . But if you still stay alert, you can now relax a bit: Facebook, which censors everything and anything , has unveiled a new tool to increase the level of security when you connect to your Facebook account. What if you use a USB flash drive?
This is not a joke: while the social network already offers authenticate by two factors, namely the classical password and sending a code by SMS on a smartphone, Facebook has announced that it will soon be possible to connect using a USB stick to the standard Universal 2nd Factor, USB U2F . Do not you understand? In fact, the principle of this key is simple enough: “the USB U2F has a code associated with the Facebook account and, when the network connection, the key and the code wondered if it corresponds access. account is granted. Facebook uses this system as it avoids attacks the principle of slipping between the network connection and the computer security since this is physical, ” says the website Digital Age . So, ready to test?

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Facebook tests a tool “anti-fake news”

sivertime — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:37:33 +0000

Facebook is committed to ensuring that the news you share on the social network is authentic and true. And it starts in Germany before we get home.
You know, the editorial ‘of meltyStyle doing its best to inform you daily. But everyone does not have the same integrity as us and that’s how unfounded gossip of all kinds run at full speed on the canvas . In this regard, the firm of Mark Zuckerberg decided to play the heroes by fighting against the false information. Already, we spoke to you last month, Facebook may soon launch its own digital newsstand for Snapchat Discover sauce . But above all, what makes the news of the social network is the fact that the latter is currently testing a tool unpublished in Germany, aimed at removing all the false information circulating on its platform. But what does it mean and what does it take concretely? Answer right away.
It is this Sunday, January 15 that Facebook announced that it would begin deploying the first measures related to this “anti fake news” tool in Germany this year. This announcement finds its place in the fact that elections will take place at the end of the year in the country of Angela Merkel. Clearly, Facebook wants to avoid being associated with the results of the election, as was the case at the time of the election of Donald Trump as the new president of the United States. Many people have accused the platform to have played an important role in access to power of the businessman . The American giant will therefore work with independent organizations that meet the fact-checking codes of the Poynter Institute of Journalism. Organizations will report to Facebook if any news is true or if it is totally false, resulting in sanctions, if any. Sanctions that will not go to the censorship (contrary to what happened to a work of art deemed “too bare” for Facebook) , but appear more or less clearly that the information shared n ‘ Is not completely reliable. What do you think of this initiative?

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