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You can tell Twitter (and the other techies) don't care about "security" when they force you to use SMS for 2FA when we all know they're doing that to harvest p
by bmismyname 4y ago
You can tell Twitter (and the other techies) don't care about "security" when they force you to use SMS for 2FA when we all know they're doing that to harvest phone numbers because they're a pretty o.k. way to link identities.
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- zimpenfish 4y ago> they force you to use SMS for 2FA It's not exclusive, though; you can switch to an authenticator like Authy or even a hardware device like Yubikey.
- bmismyname 4y agoI think the scheme they used was to require a phone number to set it up the first time, and after that you could switch to TOTP or whatever. Authy also harvests phone numbers.