At Facebook, defense is offense
Found on CNet News on Sunday, 30 January 2011
The wall of scalps is a source of pride for Facebook's security team and is representative of the company's aggressive, no-holds-barred approach to keeping fraudsters and thieves away from its more than 500 million users.
On Christmas Day, the security staff started hearing complaints from political activists in Tunisia--who had been protesting against the government since December--that their Facebook accounts were being compromised.
Facebook came up with a solution to fix the problem and began rolling it out to users in Tunisia over the next week.
Lacking an essential security protocol and hailing its introduction as an awesome invention is not something to be proud of. It's also embarrassing to have your CEO's account hacked. Or to have a default setup which reveals private information which in turn helps solving security questions to gain access to email accounts.