Facebook is unveiling a new service that remedies one of the biggest headaches facing online users today—the forgotten password.
Starting Tuesday, Facebook will offer a service that allows users who lose their GitHub login credentials to securely regain access to their accounts. The process takes only seconds and uses a handful of clicks over encrypted HTTPS Web links. To set it up, Facebook users create a GitHub recovery token in advance and save it with their Facebook account. In the event they lose their GitHub login credentials, they can reauthenticate to Facebook and request the token be sent to GitHub with a time-stamped signature.
