Google, for example, has a mostly undocumented policy of ignoring exhaustively authenticated number changes for *an unspecified period* for verification purposes, sending verification codes only to the old (in this case non-working, non-text-capable) number, because Security.
Every single runaround introduced to fight the phishing/hacking arms race is such a disaster for regular people gradually or suddenly losing vision and cognition. Wild times.
Erin Kissane /
npub16v…typ3c
2023-12-13 22:58:49
in reply to nevent1q…3mml
Author Public Key
npub16vwd5dg7y9xxukwvwjk0uk9wy35v46t7dvsp2272gjgfx8lj9j0sstyp3cPublished at
2023-12-13 22:58:49Event JSON
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