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Any new account can use Facebook for 24 hours before email verification becomes required. This is a huge issue for any email address not linked to a Facebook account. Facebook will happily leak the social graph of that address's shadow profile (e.g. in the "suggested friends" list), and let anyone impersonate it, for 24h.

It happened to me. Those 24h were no fun.


Well that’ll teach you to not have a Facebook account /s


Wow, incredible footgun you got there, Facebook


Footguns are OK as long as they're pointed at other people's feet.


Should be a footgun, but they've never really been penalized for things like that.


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