Christina Warren
Cassandra Granade@film_girl The bit about how this is because SMS TFA is bad just gets entirely undermined by the part where it's still available to Blue users. Like... zero internal consistency at all.
Matt Stocum@cgranade @film_girl I’d actually respect this move if they just dumped SMS 2FA entirely.
@mattstocum @cgranade I almost would too. The reason I would hesitate is that Twitter has hundreds of millions of users and it seems unfair to make everyone who uses SMS less secure just because it isn’t as secure as TOTP. In any event, you need to give people longer than 30 days to migrate to the new method.
@film_girl yeah, like most things where security is involved, it’s complicated, has a series of trade offs, and needs intelligent people to think about the ramifications of what they’re doing. Which, of course, is why Elon is doing this in the absolute dumbest way possible. I’m sure the only factor behind his decision is cutting down on SMS fees, and the security bit is just something someone threw in the blog post without his knowledge.
Simple Vitality@mattstocum @film_girl It appears to me he bought twitter to destroy it.
His buddies, the authoritarians, do not like twitter.
It appears to me the shutting down of SMS 2 factor is to expose millions of accounts.
I could be wrong but usually if you think of the worst poss thing, that is the correct answer with these guys.
He, also, has no bottom just like trump.
Rob Middleton@SimpleVitality @mattstocum @film_girl I thought this as well. It was a form of media that couldn’t be controlled by rich interests, so could not be allowed to stand. He is also infantile and conceited it’s true, but if he hadn’t done it someone else rich would.