It lets a user specify between three and five pals on the social network (no more, no less) who can be counted on to pass along a special code if the user somehow gets locked out of his or her account.

CNN: Mark Milian,

Pyra's Blogger.com suffered a security breach in October, during which unknown hackers seized control of individual user accounts and locked them out from their Blogger accounts.

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Case in point, a user on the MobileRead forums reports being locked out of his account for what was termed an "extraordinary" rate of returns (that is, he returned electronics that arrived damaged or defective).

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