A lot of people use the same passwords for GMail, bank, credit card, Facebook, ..., and Foursquare. So it's a big deal if you can easily collect passwords from any one of these services.
Exactly... I guess this is just another lesson that security of a network (in this case meaning all the different services we use) is only as strong as the weakest link. Certainly not going to be firing up the foursquare app for a while
one of my Facebook friends got his account compromised recently and a scam email was sent to many of his contacts. I think the scammer got the FB account somehow, and found the email of my friend as well as the emails of his FB friends shown on FB (like mine…).
It made me realize that your info on Facebook is as safe as the weakest account of your Facebook friends. I'm in control of my own passwords and make sure that all my passwords are different. But I can't control my friends' password policies, which are probably very weak overall.
