penguin202124 (he/him) to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoDiscord requiring you to add a phone number after the creation of your accountsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1318arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1315arrow-down1imageDiscord requiring you to add a phone number after the creation of your accountsh.itjust.workspenguin202124 (he/him) to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareedriclinkfedilinkEnglish20•3 months 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@kitnaht@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-23 months 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.