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Problems with Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 26 2013 @ 07:38 PM EDT
Simplest solution would be to rig a repeater up - have the
phone number go to a server, and then have it forward the
message to whoever needs it.

Or have it be a VOIP number, which allows for arbitrary
device.

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Problems with Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication
Authored by: tknarr on Sunday, May 26 2013 @ 07:43 PM EDT

It is a problem, because you can only associate a phone number with a single cel phone at a time. So, who monitors that single phone for an organization that may have dozens of people authorized to make tweets? How does that person know which of those dozens of people made the tweet this particular code is for and get the code to them? Twitter's system is set up on the assumption that the person tweeting has physical possession of the single phone attached to the account, and for these organizations that's physically impossible given the way the cel phone network works.

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Problems with Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 28 2013 @ 01:40 PM EDT
My problem is that they don't use Google's excellent
Authenticator app.
I have DropBox, a bunch of servers and Google using it. Why
can't Facebook and Twitter? Or are they suffering from the
not-invented-here problem?

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