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Re:Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password by Hamuko on Monday January 04, 2021 @02:45AM (#25628682)
>Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right?

And we didn't use to tie second-factor authentication into SMS messages to your phone number.

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Re:Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password by taneq on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:12AM (#25628803)
We didn't used to have two-factor authentication at all for most things though.
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Re:Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password by thesuitonym on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:50AM (#25633925)
You're not supposed to do that today, either.
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