penguin202124 (he/him)@sh.itjust.works to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoDiscord requiring you to add a phone number after the creation of your accountsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1378file-text
arrow-up1378imageDiscord 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 days agomessage-square88fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareedric@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·3 days 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-up13·edit-23 days 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.