On: SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook, and Venmo

[snoble]

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?

[patmcguire → snoble]

Or it's specific the phone technology? Maybe the European protocols have authentication built-in.

[Titanous → patmcguire]

No, there's no phone tech going on here: https://support.twitter.com/groups/34-apps-sms-and-mobile/to...