Father ChaseWhat kind of mickey mouse bs...Elon should be ashamed of this. "yeah actual security is only for paying subscribers"
Fr. Paul@Kalanthropos you can still use a 2FA app but this is trying to crack down on the alleged scam where mobile service providers are registering fake accounts to send SMS requests and con Twitter out of money, which is totally fake
karl rove knausgård@BackwardsFeet @Kalanthropos yeah it’s worth saying explicitly that the better move would be banning text message 2FA altogether, the weird thing here is allowing it for twitter blue
@BackwardsFeet @Kalanthropos text-based 2FA has been understood to be a bad idea for a long time, it just always takes the industry a long time to catch up. i hope we start the move to passkeys soon.
@UhActually @Kalanthropos unfortunately it's by far the most accessible, most normies don't want an app (cf. Above) and no way are YubiKeys gonna become widespread. Most people are simply willing to take the risk.
Kirk G@kagger @UhActually @Kalanthropos a lot more tech nerds in the higher up positions at Twitter - banking execs are probably wary of anything new that they think could somehow increase liability.
sam l&@BackwardsFeet @kagger @UhActually @Kalanthropos banks are also subject to a lot more scrutiny from regulators where even if they introduced no liability the regulators might signal that changing authentication is “risky”
@zetazero @BackwardsFeet @kagger @UhActually the most humorous 2fa to me is steam. Oh no, someone might hack my account and enjoy my video games for free. What a terrible thing that would be
@Kalanthropos @zetazero @BackwardsFeet @UhActually well I mean they could get you VAC banned, sell your rare items, or buy themselves games with a saved CC.
I once got my brother banned from a Desert Combat server for accidentally TKing
@kagger @BackwardsFeet @UhActually @Kalanthropos changes mean audits and audits are expensive and bankers are going to ask why we spent money to fix something that worked