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No, that's just shifting the blame onto the user. If they are asking for something as sensitive as a mobile number, then they need to protect it properly. They

• nomilk 4y ago
  > that's just shifting the blame onto the user. Even so, it's the first time I've seen a company actually imply to the public in plain English that they can't protect private info, rather than maintain a facade of security that doesn't actually exist. As you point out though, if Twitter requires a phone number to sign up and 99.9% of users use their personal number, then Twitter are basically saying "our security sucks and if you want an account you have no alternative...". Some interesting corollaries: - Are there any services that will sign up to twitter on behalf of users? (and would they work or would it be merely shifting trust from Twitter to a potentially less trustworthy party?) - I wonder if Twitter could consider not requiring personal info at sign up so as to avoid this dark UX - Is there a 10 minute mail for phone numbers?