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12th December 2008 - Link Blog

Facebook's new signup process. It looks like they’ve dropped the “enter your password twice” pattern. Is this really a good idea? I suppose if people mis-type it they can always use forgotten password to set a new one.

Posted 12th December 2008 at 11:43 am

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