An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter

Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by strulovich on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @12:55PM (#32400486)

It might have some PR speak sprinkled, but it’s genuinely good advice, put more bluntly:

“We can screw up, if it’s important enough for you to stay anonymous you should get a separate phone number and email”

That is a good tip with every company. If you want better security, have less trust in the services you’re using.

This goes to what victim blaming is. Yes. It would be great if the victim lived in a better world. But sometimes extra caution could help them now without waiting for the entire world to change.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by sneak on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @12:58PM (#32400546)

In Germany and other countries you have to show government ID to get a GSM number. Phone numbers are like bank accounts: strongly linked to official name and identity.

This advice is bullshit.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by croes on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:11PM (#32400731)

But you can abandon a number after you registered on Twitter. Doesn't help against agencies but against scrappers

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by lynndotpy on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:29PM (#32400979)

My very recent experience contradicts this. I removed my number and was immediately locked out until I added it back.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by jrockway on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:11PM (#32401612)

I don't think you tell Twitter that you canceled your cell phone contract. They don't need to know.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by soperj on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @03:47PM (#32403235)

They mean you can get a different phone number, not remove it from twitter.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by lynndotpy on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:27AM (#32410773)

Ah, I misunderstood that comment entirely. This makes more sense

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by vlovich123 on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:27PM (#32400963)

Doesn't that make account takeovers easy?

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by croes on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:49AM (#32410001)

My social media accounts are all disposable, so it doesn't really matter to me.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by vlovich123 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:59PM (#32429497)

Sure. You understand how that's not necessarily the case for many other people, right?

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by voxl on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:32PM (#32401039)

There is an exceptional difference you left out. In criminal situations, the criminal is punished, there is a deterrent. What is the deterrent here? Without a deterrent, there is a moral failure.

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