penguin202124 (he/him)@sh.itjust.works to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoDiscord requiring you to add a phone number after the creation of your accountsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1404file-textcross-posted to: mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1404imageDiscord requiring you to add a phone number after the creation of your accountsh.itjust.workspenguin202124 (he/him)@sh.itjust.works to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square98fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.ml
minus-squareedric@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·3 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-squarekitnaht@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·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.