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Why You Should Listen to Twitter on Two-Factor Authentication (Published 2023)

This New York Times article, published by nytimes.com on February 23, 2023, examines why Twitter's push toward authenticator apps over text-message verification has merit. Casey Ellis, chief technology officer of the security firm Bugcrowd, says Twitter's concern about SMS-based authentication was valid, though the rollout was not handled cleanly.

Source description, as published

Elon Musk was right: Text messages are not the most secure way to protect your account.

Inventors / authors: Brian X. Chen