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87: Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers

Darknet Diaries

CHAPTER

Twitter Accounts Need to Be Secured

Twitter forced election related accounts with weak passwords to switch to stronger ones. They encouraged, but didn't actually require, two factor authentication leading up to the 20 20 presidential election. Twitter also made password reset protection a default setting. This meant that a password reset would require some one to confirm the accounts email or phone number. It's all about for the grumps, securing the internet to block digit abuse. Edwin agrees that influential accounts need good security.

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