jsrailton,
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Random strangers getting paid to 'relay' YOUR texted login codes from THEIR phone numbers.

Privacy & security nightmare fuel.

Industry is turning away from texted verification because they are insecure... so what is thinking?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/25/telegrams-peer-to-peer-sms-login-service-is-a-privacy-nightmare/

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jsrailton,
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2/ Doxxing, stalking, spamming & exposure of users is guaranteed.

Moreover, it will set the expectation that users SHOULD trust codes sent from random phone numbers.

Speculating here: misguided cost cutting.

It's hard to understand why else you'd take such a strange path.

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