Χρήστες του Facebook που έβαλαν τον αριθμό τηλεφώνου τους για την ενεργοποίηση του two-factor authentication έλαβαν spam μηνύματα από την εφαρμογή, στα οποία μάλιστα η απάντηση έχει ως αποτέλεσμα να δημοσιευτεί ως post στο προφίλ τους.
Το Facebook είναι ενήμερο για το πρόβλημα πραγματοποιώντας σχετική ανάρτηση για το θέμα, σημειώνοντας ότι δουλεύει πάνω σε ένα fix που θα κυκλοφορήσει πολύ σύντομα.
Αν πάντως σας επηρεάζει το ζήτημα, εκείνο που μπορείτε να κάνετε προς το παρόν είναι να απενεργοποιήσετε τα σχετικά notifications από τις ρυθμίσεις του Facebook.
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Fixing SMS notifications for those using two-factor authentication
By Alex Stamos, Facebook Chief Security Officer
This week, we heard from a number of people who received non-security-related SMS notifications from Facebook on their phones after signing up for our two-factor authentication security feature.
When we heard about this, we looked into it right away. Two-factor authentication is an important security feature that has helped a lot of people mitigate the risk of phishing attempts and helps protect people from having their accounts compromised. We also give people control over their notifications, and the last thing we want is for people to avoid helpful security features because they fear they will receive unrelated notifications.
It was not our intention to send non-security-related SMS notifications to these phone numbers, and I am sorry for any inconvenience these messages might have caused. We are working to ensure that people who sign up for two-factor authentication won’t receive non-security-related notifications from us unless they specifically choose to receive them, and the same will be true for those who signed up in the past. We expect to have the fixes in place in the coming days. To reiterate, this was not an intentional decision; this was a bug.
People also asked why their responses to these notifications would appear as status updates on Facebook. For years, before the ubiquity of smartphones, we supported posting to Facebook via text message, but this feature is less useful these days. As a result, we are working to deprecate this functionality soon.
