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You've missed the point. It's not that his twitter was hacked, it's that an attacker can get control of your phone number.



I'm well aware of that and don't use my phone number for security-related tasks when I can. My operator or the authorities (with IMSI-catchers, also available to criminals) could gain control of it at any time after all.




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