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pwim
on July 6, 2010
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Employees Challenged To Crack Facebook Security, S...
Facebook does appear to use SSL. If you look at the login form, they are submitting to:
https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1
wooster
on July 6, 2010
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Which means next to nothing if the page with the login form isn't encrypted. A man in the middle attack would just replace the Facebook login page, and the user would likely never notice.
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