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> Your post is unclear on one point. Did you see this screen BEFORE confirming via SMS that you were in possession of the mobile number you entered? If it was after confirmation, that's a very different thing.

Good point, but it's not a very different thing, it's a slightly different thing. SMS confirmation would not have stopped FB outing his gay friend to the author. The only different thing is that it would have stopped others abusing this. This is still something that can be abused and should be fixed.

Fair enough, I won't quibble. In the absence of a bug report, and having to do this in public, I'm trying to get what information I can. I'm also trying to respond to the author's claims about private investigators, etc.

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