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January 11, 2014, 04:34:15 PM
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The new facebook App asks for a lot of new permissions. Among them is "Read your text messages (SMS or MMS)".

This breaks the SMS-based 2 factor authentication used by many Bitcoin services. This means that if Facebook somehow gets your login passphrase (you do use a different one for each website, don't you?), they can now steal all of your Bitcoin stored in those services.
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