Twitter bans journalist who reported on hack of right-wing pundit's Twitter account

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Originally published at: Twitter bans journalist who reported on hack of right-wing pundit's Twitter account | Boing Boing

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Surely being banned by twitter is a sign of journalistic integrity these days.

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Showing, once again, that 2FA is usually meant to cover the ass of the organization, and not its users.

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SIM-based 2FA is better than no 2FA, but people really should use authentication apps instead.

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Not to be confused with Simp Swapping.

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Really? It makes my phone a single point of failure for every site that offloads their security problems.

I prefer to use secure passwords, unique to each site.

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… don’t use Twitter?

Seems like they did this journalist a favor

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Does it? It only shows that a sufficiently motivated targeted attack will find a way.

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So, he’s banned as long as Musk runs Twitter, or as long as it stays operational? Penalty could be pretty brief.

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I wish every site offered it! SIM-based TFA is nearly worthless now, long since compromised. However even major banks still don’t offer authentication app as an option. Grrr. :angry:

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Unfortunately the majority of sites that work with 2FA authentication apps will allow you to bypass it if you have 2FA SIM access.

The overlords working on a post-password future are the cellphone companies, so I’m not optimistic about them resolving this conundrum anytime soon.

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Yah, good point. If there’s a “I lost my app!” button that reverts to SIM TFA, then the app is rendered pointless. Sigh.

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