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This month in Australia the second largest Telco went down for a day. Then the next day I read a report on how they’d just dished out someone’s existing mobile
by firecall 3y ago
This month in Australia the second largest Telco went down for a day.
Then the next day I read a report on how they’d just dished out someone’s existing mobile number to a new customer!
The same number now registered twice on the network.
Mobile numbers as auth are a disaster.
A convenient disaster however.
- bonton89 3y agoMobile numbers are the obvious choice for large tech companies. They provide a pretty good user identifier for tracking and advertising purposes. And they allow outsourcing the hard parts of verifying a user to some one else. It isn't much wonder why they went this route and usually fall back to it even if you've setup something else.