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What's the use-case for a publicly readable text service? Abuse, for one -- many services use "prove you control a phone number" as a first-pass filter for "An
by patio11 10y ago
What's the use-case for a publicly readable text service?
Abuse, for one -- many services use "prove you control a phone number" as a first-pass filter for "An action which is easy to do once but hard to do 100,000 times" to authorize people to do a wide variety of things.
- some1else 10y agoApologies. I'm not a native English speaker. Still having a problem imagining in what sense an SMS service might be "publicly available", and how public availability helps in proving control of a phone number :-$
- bigbugbag 10y agoHave you visited one ? https://smsreceivefree.com/ https://smsreceivefree.com/ for example. you will understand what publicly available means: they provide a phone number, you use it for whatever and check the site page where all text sent to this number are displayed.
- rebuilder 10y agoWell, that was an interesting read. Judging by the received SMS people, for example, register Whatsapp accounts with those numbers!