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Ask HN: Risks (and benefits) of publishing my Facebook password

1 points by revscat ↗ HN
Facebook is understood to be fairly toxic, for various reasons. Rather than simply deleting my account, I would rather actually starve them of the datapoint that "this account was deleted on dd/mm/yy", and would prefer to simply voluntarily sabotage it. Before doing so, however, I'm curious as to the legal and other risks that might be incurred. Is doing so legal? I don't use Facebook as an authentication provider, so that is not a risk. There may be other technical reasons not to, however, that I haven't considered yet.

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greenyoda
If someone uses your Facebook account to do something illegal, like sell drugs or post child porn, you might get a visit from the police. Good luck explaining to them how you made your Facebook password public.
icedchai
They could also set up a fake account with his name and do the same thing.
revscat
Interesting point, and it brings up an interesting question: how to publish the password in such a way that it can be verified that it happened, and when. You'd want something publicly timestamped. Twitter might suffice.