Back on February 22nd, we discussed Facebook’s new Delegated Account Recovery feature. Basically, if you should for some reason forget your password to any account, or lose your two-factor authentication device (smartphone), and can no longer get into your account, Facebook will help you recover the account, as long as it is one that is enrolled with Facebook.
This is not the same thing as password managers like DashLane or LastPass, although the question is when will they be offering something like this.
Just to be clear, Facebook is not holding your passwords. They are creating a secure way for you to recover passwords that have been lost or forgotten without using secret questions and answers. They are including not just web sites and web applications in the recovery process, but will also let you enroll locally networked line of business applications, or those installed on your computer. This is a nifty capability not as yet matched by password managers I have used. For example, LastPass is of no use to me when I log into my computer or into a password protected application on my computer.
For more information check out the links below.
More information:
- WyzGuys – previous post
- Naked Security
- Facebook article from Jan 30, 2017
- Facebook – Delegated Account Recover in Beta
JUN
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