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modeless on Nov 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Facebook is ruining sharing

Two-factor via SMS is for dumbphones. Facebook should support RFC 4226 to allow smartphone apps to generate codes without communicating with Facebook.

adgar on Nov 19, 2011 [–]

They should support RFC 4226, as google does, but they still need to support SMS with the size and diversity of their userbase. Google offers SMS as well.

How long before every facebook user has a device that can do RFC 4226? I hope soon, but kind of doubt it'll happen this decade.

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