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		Twitter will finally let users disable SMS as default 2FA method (zdnet.com)
		3 points by notlukesky on Nov 23, 2019 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

octosphere on Nov 23, 2019 [–]

Seems like only high-profile accounts get sim jacked. I would love to see some stats to see how prevalent sim porting attacks happen to ordinary low-follower-count accounts that have little influence on the network.

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