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		anologwintermut on June 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Norwegian lawyer had visa withdrawn after private ... This is a company that allegedly had a master password allowing employees to snoop on profiles. Moreover, the Terms of Service almost certainly say there is automated and human monitoring of messaging. Why would anyone in their right mind conduct privileged conversations using it?

katbyte on June 11, 2013 [–]

I did not know this, no allegedly about it. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/facebook-master-pas...)

but they did away with it "in favor of other, more secure forms of logging in to repair accounts"

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