Last Wednesday, I woke up to two emails from Facebook. One let me know that the primary email address on my account had been switched to a Hotmail account I haven't used since 2009. The other let me know the password had been hanged on my Facebook account. I'd been hacked. Fortunately, both emails contained links to pages where I could secure my account in the event the action was unauthorized. Unfortunately, the pages came up in Turkish. (I'd soon discover why this was the case.) Google Chrome, the browser I was using, offered to auto-translate the text, but the translations weren't very helpful. This was bad. I'm a fairly heavy Facebook user, partly because a big social following is a...
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