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Facebook Introduces onetime Temporary Password

Facebook has introduced two new security features, what it hopes will make users feel more secure: Onetime Passwords, and Remote Logout. As always, through the many iterations of Facebook’s security features and policies, just how secure Facebook is depends a lot on just how secure the user makes it, quite consciously, as is the case here: Onetime Passwords If your mobile is associated with your account, you will be able to request a onetime password from Facebook that’s valid for twenty minutes, meant to be used at unsecure locations. Facebook says: "Simply text "otp" to 32665 on your mobile phone (U.S. only), and you'll immediately receive a password that can be used only once and expires in 20 minutes. In order to access this feature, you'll need a mobile phone number in your account. We're rolling this out gradually, and it should be available to everyone in the coming weeks." Remote Logout As the name says, users will be able to remotely logout of...

The new BSD Licence is written in poetic style

In an effort to make licence more readable BSD licence is re-written in poetic style. According to gerv.net This is an effort to make licence documents more readable and interesting by turning them into verse. (Note that there is no document called the "Poetic Licence"; if I ever do more than one of these, that will be an umbrella term.) The original is OSI-approved , but the verse version certainly is not, and so should not be used for software. To make sure that does not become the case, I retain all copyright rights for now. Here is the original version of BSD Licence Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following discl...