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Twitter’s two-factor authentication change “doesn’t make sense”

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Twitter’s two-factor authentication change “doesn’t make sense”

Security experts baffled by move to require paid subscription to get SMS sign-in codes.

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mafinar

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It did make sense to me, so I immediately deactivated my account.

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gflashner

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Probably just to have more users to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

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AstonJ

AstonJ

The only reason I haven’t yet is to stop someone else from nicking my name :lol:

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