Your Facebook Account has Three Passwords

Do user know that user can log into userr Facebook account using three different passwords? Just change the case of userr main password to get the new one!

This is interesting. You can log into userr Facebook account using three passwords – one is the main password that user created and the other passwords can be constructed by toggling the case of characters that form userr original password.

For example, if userr Facebook password is operati@nGeronimo!, user can convert the uppercase characters to lowercase (and vice-versa) and the toggled password string –OPERATI@NgERONIMO! – will also get user into Facebook.

There’s another variation as well. If the first character of userr Facebook password is in small case, just change that character to upper case – like Operati@nGeronimo! - and Facebook will gladly let user in.

You may try these variations with userr own password on the Facebook login screen available at facebook.com/login.php.

Multiple Facebook Logins

You don’t just have multiple passwords on Facebook, user can log into Facebook using multiple usernames as well.

The default username is the email address that is associated to userr Facebook account but user can also login using userr Facebook username (that’s in the vanity URL of userr Facebook profile page). Similarly, if user have associated userr mobile number with Facebook (which user should for security reasons), user can use that mobile number as userr username on the Facebook login screen.

A Stack Exchange thread pointed me to this ZDNet story that explains why Facebook allows users to login through multiple passwords. According to Facebook:

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.

Thus, if user have accidentally enabled CAPS Lock on the keyboard, the toggled password would still work on Facebook.

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