There are, however, several third-party applications that repackage Twitter's mobile site and several more to which we didn't feel comfortable handing out our Facebook login credentials.

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The social login genie, it seems, is out of the bottle and cannot be put back.

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Months later, after a water pump burned out, a repairman highlighted the login from the Russian IP address.

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In April, the FBI issued an alert about a style of attack in which hackers steal a business's online banking login details and use them to transfer funds out of the business's account.

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Hundreds of millions of users, many of whom login and start using the site before they even get out of bed in the morning.

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If you want to try out a new service, you can seamlessly login and choose to give permission to that service, and the photos that you have granted access to would be immediately available.

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