How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC’s (www.wired.com)

submitted 10 months ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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X’s move to make people pay for a basic form of two-factor is problematic. It also created confusion because the company prompted free users to switch away from SMS two-factor, but then seemingly simply turned off the protection altogether for those who didn’t. This likely left a group of users in a situation where they think they have two-factor authentication on, but actually don’t.

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[-] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

I have a great solution for this problem: Stay away from Elon's Nazi shithole, also known as X

For all other accounts, use 2FA via TOTP or U2F

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