Facebook adds more idiotic security features

Facebook tries another out of its mad experiments about security. Now instead of typical Captcha that help indentify that a user who is logging in is not a bot Facebook asks its members to identify their friends based on their profile pictures.

Facebook activates this so-called “social authentication” when it suspects malicious activity such as logging from different parts of the world in a period of a couple hours. During this authentication process a user will have to identify a few friends through multiple-choice questions to access your account.

"Hackers halfway across the world might know your password, but they don't know who your friends are," Alex Rice, a Facebook security engineer, writes in a blog post.

Well, this seems to be ridiculous considering the fact that Facebook has already made our friends public by default unless someone has set it not to share their information with others. Besides, when hacker accesses our accounts they can easily look through the list of friends in our profile and match pictures to names.

One more essential thing that hasn’t been taken into account by crazy developers team of Facebook is that there might be someone in the list of your friends whom you met only once and since that time you have never contacted and talked to him.