Are you aware that there can be three different passwords for facebook?
By ravisivan
@ravisivan (14079)
India
November 2, 2012 7:18am CST
Today I was reading a discussion about hacking in mylot. I made a search in mylot and that brought me to a page wherein discussions are there about hacking.
In that page it is given that facebook allows three different passwords. But some condition attached.
Supposing our facebook password is
ourPassWord
You see in the above password P and W are only in capital letters. Facebook will accept for this account changed password as given below:
OURpASSwORD
yes. here the two letters that were in capital are given in lower caps and those letters which were in lower caps are now given in uppercaps.
The third variation is
OurPassWord
In this the first letter alone is changed into capital letter whereas other letters are as in the first password.
I came to know of this new information and thought it fit to share with members. Are you aware of this earlier and are there any other interesting aspects about internet?
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12 responses
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
2 Nov 12
i never know this, i think it will be helpful for some who want to keep more than one password. Really interesting , will try and see.
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@prashu228 (37524)
• India
2 Nov 12
hi riyauro,
hmmm, thank God at least you remember me. I good ya hope you are doing good.
I missed all your discussions these days.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
2 Nov 12
Facebook has actually acknowledged this. In explanation, they state:
“Our passwords are not case-sensitive. We accept three forms of the user’s password to help overcome the most common reasons that authentic logins are rejected. In addition to the original password, we also accept the password if a user inadvertently has caps lock enabled or their mobile device automatically capitalizes the first character of the password. We feel this does not significantly impact the security of the user’s password or their account. Additionally, we do not store our passwords in plain text we use several encryption technologies and techniques to maintain the security of our information.”
You can actually find several articles about this "feature" posted on the Internet. Most of them agree that it doesn't constitute a major security threat and that there is, at least, some logic behind Facebook's policy, though whether it is valid or not depends on how careful you are about typing passwords! It is always possible to CHECK whether you have Caps Lock on and most mobile devices have the option of whether to capitalise the first letter or not!
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
2 Nov 12
I'd prefer 'diligent' to 'smart', Riyauro! A smart answer isn't always the best by a long chalk! (There! That was a 'smart' retort!) 
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
2 Nov 12
owlwings
Thanks for this write up from facebook. I was not aware of it. but even with this variation as you say facebook is protected one. yesterday I tried to log in thro another computer and it was not allowing me. afterwards i had to change my password. I use facebook mainly to tell candidates about my blogs posted.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
2 Nov 12
See Facebook's official explanation, which I reproduced above.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
2 Nov 12
I wanted to inform members about this provision i came to know recently. hope it is of help to you,
@fantabulus (4000)
• India
3 Nov 12
Sir I heard this first time and this in interesting but I not use facebook more but my daughter use the facebook and I will tell her about this discussion.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
4 Nov 12
fanta:
you are not using facebook. no problem. tell your daughter. understanding facebook is also complicated initially. i had problem beginning now no problem.
@thewonderboy (7501)
• India
3 Nov 12
Hey ravisivan,
I was not much aware about this tip. Anyway thanks for sharing the kind full and helpful piece of information. I hope this will help many of the people like me.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
4 Nov 12
yes wonderboy. in order to inform other members i posted this disussion and am happy many members are benefitted, good day,
@5mahi05 (666)
• India
2 Nov 12
No sir, absolutely no problem. Just that I do not have any time to spend on that and I do not find a need with that account. I just left it and all I get is the texts from people asking me to check their posts and like their pics and comment on their status. Just thinking that once i delete it, I wouldn't have to do all those.. 
@ofzhernandez (278)
• Philippines
2 Nov 12
@5mahi05, can u please teach me how to delete facebook acount?because i ve been thinking of deleting it too. and can i still copy all my photos? idont have copies of those. hope youll help me up here O:-)
@5mahi05 (666)
• India
2 Nov 12
You can have copies of your facebook profile just by taking a back-up of your profile..
To get the back-up, go to , account setting, there you will have, download a copy of your facebook data.. that is sort of a back-up for your facebook data. 
Then coming to the deleting of your account, i'm actually searching for that.. will let you know if I can help you. I actually forgot the way to do it.
Maybe, for time being, you can de-activate your account and then activate it if you plan to get back to facebook soon.
By de-activating, you won't be on facebook, still, once you get back, your account will be the same as you had left!
Then coming to the deleting of your account, i'm actually searching for that.. will let you know if I can help you. I actually forgot the way to do it.
Maybe, for time being, you can de-activate your account and then activate it if you plan to get back to facebook soon.
By de-activating, you won't be on facebook, still, once you get back, your account will be the same as you had left! 
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
2 Nov 12
hello ravi,
All I know is that we can use special characters, numeric and yes- capital letters in variations.
I don't know about using 3 passwords on Facebook account- but I have set questions to verify my facebook account before anyone can access it.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
2 Nov 12
jaiho
that is right. you have set questions for which answers are known to you only. that is very correct.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
2 Nov 12
I have only known about it through your discussion. Thanks for sharing! This could be really scary. So we must really have a unique password for an account and as much as possible a mixture of alphanumeric symbols.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
2 Nov 12
jenny
it need not scare you. please read the response given by owlwings(no.4) above. it is self explanatory,. however we must change password say once in three months.
@watchamacallitz (1171)
• Philippines
2 Nov 12
OH MY GOD!!! I tried it and it really worked! this is interesting and scary as well. Well, thanks for sharing!
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
2 Nov 12
watchama
good. you tried. nice. it is good to know the way thing work.
@riyauro (6421)
• India
2 Nov 12
hi ravi, I myself did not know about it. i have seen the responses and now i can say that i know it..hahha. I do not go to facebook that much and was never actually interested in it. but it is good to know you know..
..Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.
..Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead. @ravisivan (14079)
• India
2 Nov 12
riyauro
thanks for the response. this interesting aspect about facebook --i could know today only. I use facebook also more for telling others about my blogs for recruitment. otherwise most of the time i am logged into mylot.
@SUMANJIve (45)
• Australia
6 Nov 12
Oh yes now I remember once I typed my password in facebook and i noticed just inserting my password that "capslock" is ON!!!
But also facebook accepted my password and i became very much surprised because the capslock has changed my case of my password!!!
Now I got the full information about it...Thank You
