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A comment on SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook, and Venmo.

Re:SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook, and Venmo by snoble on Monday December 03, 2012 @01:25PM (#4866909)
best and scariest quote of the post

  Twitter has a PIN code feature that requires every message to be prepended with a four-digit alphanumeric code. This feature mitigates the issue, but is not available to users inside the United States.
So they fixed the problem... but are withholding the fix from tons of users?
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Re:SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook, and Venmo by patmcguire on Monday December 03, 2012 @01:48PM (#4867066)
Or it's specific the phone technology? Maybe the European protocols have authentication built-in.
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Re:SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook, and Venmo by Titanous on Monday December 03, 2012 @01:50PM (#4867078)
No, there's no phone tech going on here: https://support.twitter.com/groups/34-apps-sms-and-mobile/to...
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