penguin202124 (he/him) to Mildly [email protected]English • 1 month agoDiscord requiring you to add a phone number after the creation of your accountsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1396arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1393arrow-down1imageDiscord requiring you to add a phone number after the creation of your accountsh.itjust.workspenguin202124 (he/him) to Mildly [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square87fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareedriclinkfedilinkEnglish26•1 month agoI work in the cybersecurity field and I hate that the official discord server of one of the international orgs I’m involved in requires a phone number to participate. The irony.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-21 month agoI don’t think many people know about sim-swap attacks, so they think people knowing their phone number is fine. Honestly I wish people would just fucking get rid of phone-number-based OTP anyways. TOTP is where it’s at.
I work in the cybersecurity field and I hate that the official discord server of one of the international orgs I’m involved in requires a phone number to participate. The irony.
I don’t think many people know about sim-swap attacks, so they think people knowing their phone number is fine.
Honestly I wish people would just fucking get rid of phone-number-based OTP anyways. TOTP is where it’s at.