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  • Eric Aschner (Parody) https://twitter.com/EricAschner
    So legitimate users who use SMS to keep their account protected get kicked to the curb. Fraudsters find a way. In a month Twitter's SMS spend is right back where it is now but randos get charged. Twitter spends even more money dealing with chargebacks and CS issues.

    13/14
    Portland, Oregon • 46°F
    Sat, Feb 18, 2023 5:37pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 1:57pm -08:00)
  • Christina Warren https://twitter.com/film_girl
    On the one hand, no one should use SMS based 2FA. No one. On the other hand, this is insane.
    Portland, Oregon • 46°F
    Sat, Feb 18, 2023 12:11am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 1:54pm -08:00)
  • Jared Hanson https://twitter.com/jaredhanson
    This is the consumer equivalent of charging companies for SSO.
    Portland, Oregon • 46°F
    Fri, Feb 17, 2023 11:17pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 1:53pm -08:00)
  • Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet   •   Feb 18
    V1 of a little montage of @snappixy orbits I took in interesting places in the last few months.
    To preserve your innocence, no swimwear shot was included in the collection 😛

    @aaronpk I need your videographer expertise to learn how to align shots in post prod!
    Aaron Parecki
    This is fantastic! 👏 no notes 💯
    Portland, Oregon • 46°F
    2 likes
    Sat, Feb 18, 2023 1:47pm -08:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    It's okay, I didn't really need to use Twitter today anyway.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F
    18 likes 2 reposts 5 replies
    Sat, Feb 18, 2023 10:24am -08:00 #twitter
  • Scott Stewart https://twitter.com/scott_stewart   •   Feb 18
    I had the same initial “I can’t believe they are going to charge to be secure” knee jerk reaction as most of Twitter is having, but once you stop to think about what they are doing it’s ironically a better precedent to start pushing!
    Aaron Parecki
    Exactly haha! SMS costs money to send those codes, and is less secure, so let's push people away from it!
    Portland, Oregon • 40°F
    2 likes
    Sat, Feb 18, 2023 6:33am -08:00
  • Adam DuVander https://twitter.com/adamd
    A great subheading, courtesy of the Wayback Machine:

    "Never Build Another User Table" on StormPath's 2014 homepage (before the Okta acquisition).
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
    Fri, Feb 17, 2023 5:02pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:37pm -08:00)
  • @benward@benward.social 🐘 https://twitter.com/benward
    Free accounts must have 60 char passwords with numbers and special characters. You may use dictionary words for $1/word, at $10+ you may pay to reduce the length at 10¢/char. Or, for $100/month Verified Gold, your password is “password”.
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
    Sat, Feb 18, 2023 5:25am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:35pm -08:00)
  • DeLaVanta Tabor 🎚 Audio Engineer https://twitter.com/delmixedit   •   Feb 17
    Got the #pk1stand from @aaronpk_tv put together and looking good.  Definitely looks a lot cooler than just having the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO just sitting on the table.
    Shoutout to @inux_3d for much fast shipping than I expected ✊🏾.
    -
    #blackmagicdesign #atemmini #atemminiextremeiso
    Aaron Parecki
    Looks so good! 💯
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
    2 likes 1 reply
    Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:30pm -08:00
  • Aaron Parecki
    I'm a big fan of using more secure two-factor authentication methods like a security key or TouchID, but I will admit I never expected charging people to use SMS would be a viable strategy to get them off it 😅 https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 43°F
    46 likes 6 reposts 12 replies
    Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:26pm -08:00 #security #2fa #mfa #twitter
  • David C. Simon https://twitter.com/davidcsimon
    Never have I ever been asked by a website to *remove* two-factor authentication. Which idiot came up with this idea? Oh wait, I think I know...
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
    Sat, Feb 18, 2023 4:00am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:22pm -08:00)
  • Kevin Collier https://twitter.com/kevincollier
    And it's official: Twitter users can now choose to be less secure — to use text messages for 2FA rather than an app — but only if they pay the monthly fee. You pay for insecurity. The weirdest security decision I've ever seen from a major tech company.
    https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
    Sat, Feb 18, 2023 3:13am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:22pm -08:00)
  • Stephen Wolfram https://twitter.com/stephen_wolfram
    What is ChatGPT doing ... and why does it work? From the lore of neural nets to what Aristotle didn't get to ... here's my version of the story: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/
    Portland, Oregon • 39°F
    Tue, Feb 14, 2023 9:42pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 8:39am -08:00)
  • Simon Willison https://twitter.com/simonw
    I wrote up a detailed guide to some of the absolutely wild examples of Bing's new AI-assisted search feature that have started to circulate:

    Bing: "I will not harm you unless you harm me first" (that's genuinely something it said to someone)

    https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
    Portland, Oregon • 28°F
    Wed, Feb 15, 2023 3:22pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Feb 15, 2023 7:27am -08:00)
  • Pidud☀ https://twitter.com/Pidud_
    God Bing is so unhinged I love them so much
    Portland, Oregon • 35°F
    Mon, Feb 13, 2023 9:02am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 14, 2023 10:18pm -08:00)
  • Vikram Murthi https://twitter.com/fauxbeatpoet   •   Jul 18
    So I just discovered the Spitzer Holding Company “specialty” title cards at the very end of every SUPERSTORE episode (a la the Simpsons chalkboard gag) and it’s kind of blowing my mind. Slipped past me for five years.
    Aaron Parecki
    I am late to this party but just watched episode 2 and was like wait that can't be real 😅 and found this via a google search
    Portland, Oregon • 36°F
    Tue, Feb 14, 2023 9:53pm -08:00
  • shako https://twitter.com/cauchyfriend
    So, seems like we saw a balloon, realized our radar parameters were filtering out slow boys, changed those params, and now see a ton of things and are investigating all of them.
    Portland, Oregon • 34°F
    Sun, Feb 12, 2023 7:03pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 9:40pm -08:00)
  • Dan https://twitter.com/bristowbailey
    Criminals will start wearing extra prosthetic fingers to make surveillance footage look like it's AI generated and thus inadmissible as evidence.
    Portland, Oregon • 37°F
    Mon, Feb 13, 2023 4:11pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:04pm -08:00)
  • KovaFC https://twitter.com/fc_kova
    That was cool
    Portland, Oregon • 37°F
    Mon, Feb 13, 2023 3:00am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:00pm -08:00)
  • ⍼ https://twitter.com/aes_2fish
    thank you so much for your thread. unforgettable moment

    lit up the sky and disintegrated in a bright shade of green before dipping under the treeline
    i could see it breaking up as it dove. Pic taken from ~200km away
    Portland, Oregon • 37°F
    Mon, Feb 13, 2023 3:40am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:00pm -08:00)
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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