Twitter to charge users for SMS two-factor authentication(mashable.com)
mashable.com
Twitter to charge users for SMS two-factor authentication
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-removes-sms-2fa
4 comments
Nobody should be using text 2fa anyway. It’s being actively subverted by bad actors.
Same for Twitter;-)
Same for Twitter;-)
my favorite way around this is command line:
oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'
same as any authenticator app but you don't have to take out your phone.
On a mac it's brew install oath-toolkit to get this oathtool executable.
Then I alias in .zshrc like:
alias auth_twitter="oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'"
and backup my whole .zshrc file with all the codes.
oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'
same as any authenticator app but you don't have to take out your phone.
On a mac it's brew install oath-toolkit to get this oathtool executable.
Then I alias in .zshrc like:
alias auth_twitter="oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'"
and backup my whole .zshrc file with all the codes.
turns out this was just a brokey move by Elon to reduce the telco cost, yet his preservation of SMS for blue ticks made it a predictable PR disaster
A good move - regardless if you care about what Elon is about or not.
Media turned on him pretty quickly and it causes a lot of noise in the background distracting from the achievements.
Follow the science :)