They've made a new way to receive your pin for android and ios:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170388-using-login-verification
Basically the twitter app notifications will deliver the pin.
If this unified the various 2-factor schemes (google, twitter, my bank, and
so on), it would certainly simplify using 2-factor over many services.
-- Owen
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Way cool!
>
> I'm finding that my "information ratio" is around 6:1 measured by
> twitter:search saves to pinboard (a Delicious-like personal URL saving
> site). By that I mean that I store 6 URLs from twitter conversations (&
> transitive closure) for every 1 Google search I want to save.
>
> I read an article recently that many demographics have the same phenomenon
> .. basically social media (twitter, FB, G+) are their primary source of
> information, and the web search is low on their list.
>
> Partly I think that is because the web is so huge that phrasing a search
> request well is tough.
>
> Anyway, interesting that Twitter just might have a reason for 2-factor
> auth. Google does a good job, with a small app too rather than only sms
> for the pin.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> In an amazing coincidence, we were just talking about why Twitter would
>> matter in a different context.
>>
>> You may have seen the WSJ origin of this -
>>
>>
>> http://hotair.com/archives/2013/08/06/traders-sneaking-peeks-at-government-economic-reports/
>>
>> There was a mention of Sandia's work for Bureau of Labor a while back
>> in the press - we reluctantly red-teamed their pressroom security. We told
>> them that this was possible and even likely.
>>
>> So the last couple of days, we've been passing this article around in
>> email and making cracks about it. One of our original recommendations was
>> to move from the 1960 pressroom model to a 21st Century Internet model. In
>> the email chain, one of us joked that they'd be better off just using
>> Twitter - to which I replied that their adversary model would then be
>> Guccifer and Syrian Electronic Army.
>>
>> Just imagine if the Friday morning government economic news came out
>> via Twitter - authentication on Twitter really would matter.
>>
>> Ray Parks
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>>
>> On Aug 7, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>>
>> OK, Twitter now has 2-factor auth. But does it matter? I use
>> 2-factor with Google 'cause I store data on their system, make docs, have
>> my email, and so on. But Twitter, really? Do I care?
>>
>> https://blog.twitter.com/2013/getting-started-login
>> -verification
>>
>> Anyone on top of this, especially for motivation?
>>
>> -- Owen
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