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Facebook started sending me newsfeed notifications to the number I'd registered for 2FA, around a year after I'd done so, without any opt-in on my part. After
by mintplant 7y ago
Facebook started sending me newsfeed notifications to the number I'd registered for 2FA, around a year after I'd done so, without any opt-in on my part.
After the first few, I passive-aggressively texted "go away" back to the robot buzzing my phone. Within the hour, I started receiving concerned messages from friends asking whether I was alright... Turns out Facebook posts anything you text it straight to your profile, and the out-of-context "go away" read like cry for help.
- ok_coo 7y agoI’m glad someone else ran into this same problem. Unfortunately, I texted back “f* off” and I deleted the post as quickly as possible. Just one of the worst “features” of a social media app I’ve ever seen.
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoGood Lord that is some dystopian irony. Sounds like something a sick company would do in a Phillip K. Dick short story.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoSo you're telling me for the low low cost of porting someone's 2FA cell phone, I could use it to post to their page and they wouldn't know about it? No need to reset password, just use the phone number straight to account.
- RL_Quine 7y agoSMS source addresses are spoofable, so you probably don't even need to do that.
- skunkpocalypse 7y agoNo, they aren't -- unlike CallerID (for voice circuits). If they were spoofable, repliable SMS forwarding would exist. It doesn't, and plenty of people have been asking for it for a very long time. SMS sender data can only be altered if you're part of the SS7 walled garden telecom club.