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On 6-10-2009 0:20, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> Same sort of procedure?
>
> They're trusting the phone company to be harder to pervert than your
> password. They're trusting that an SMS sent to you is more likely to go
> to you than the bad guy breaking in.
Or at least that a bad guy needs to steal your phone *and* to hack your
account. Doing both in a short timespan is significantly less likely
than one of them.
>
>>> I think both google and facebook allow that too, but that's to cut
>>> down on spam, or some such.
>>
>> How does that work?
>
> It's been a while, but I think it involves not having to enter a captcha
> once you do this once with your cell phone. I.e., you've proven you're a
> person (because obviously they're not going to let 300 accounts use the
> same cell phone number), so you don't have to reconfirm that this
> account is a real person.
Makes sense.
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