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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Finally got back my T-mobile account (yes, it was a sim swap, meaning that someone socially-engineered T-mobile itself to take over my phone number).
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Main learning re twitter was: > A phone number is sufficient to password reset a Twitter account even if not used as 2FA. Can completely remove phone from Twitter. I had seen the "phone numbers are insecure, don't authenticate with them" advice before, but did not realize this
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I don't remember when I *added* the number; my guess is that it was required to sign up for twitter blue.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Anyway, glad to be on farcaster, where my account recovery can be controlled by a good wholesome ethereum address :)
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Ed O'Shaughnessy
@eddieosh
TIL a registered mobile phone number is needed to comment on Community Notes. Ugh!
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Ertan Dogrultan
@ertan
hard to apply good OPSEC when the system and the rules are opaque.
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