Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today Facebook stops asking people to reveal their email passwords,

WhatsApp gives you more control over group chats,

Google has a credibility problem when it comes to product shutdowns,

and 5G is kind of finally officially here. Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech. So just two weeks after the news broke that Facebook had stored the passwords of its own users insecurely,

the Daily Beast yesterday was reporting that Facebook was recently asking new users to give Facebook the password to the email

account that they used to sign up to Facebook originally. And everyone on the internet was like, what?

To quote Gizmodo on the subject, it is never ever advisable for a user to give out their

email password to anyone except possibly to a 100% verified

account administrator when no other option exists which there should be.

Email accounts tend to be primary gateways into the rest of the web because a

valid one is usually necessary to register accounts on everything from banks and financial institutions

to social media accounts and porn sites.

They obviously also contain copies of every undeleted email message ever sent to or from

that address as well as additional information like contact lists. It is from that

contact lists.

It is for this reason that email password requests are one of the most obvious hallmarks

of a fishing scam, end quote.

Well, Facebook immediately said it will stop asking for email passwords to verify new accounts, saying it had only done so to verify accounts whose email addresses didn't use O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-Foting.

Facebook told Axios that, quote, a very small group of people have the option of entering their email

password to verify their account when they sign up for Facebook, end quote,

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