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shubb on Aug 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter’s New Two-Factor Solution Kicks SMS to the...

The security advantage of this over SMS would appear to be that SMS could be intercepted. Err... okay...

The practicality advantages are that it can sign you in with a single button press, and that it works places that have wifi but not mobile reception (while SMS works places with phone reception but no wifi/data).

rhizome on Aug 7, 2013 [–]

Yeah, and to be sure, a benefit in reinventing SMS is that they can restrict it to a limited taxonomy.

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