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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wdym why? That's how most bank portals are designed. Copy-paste functionality is disabled and you have to type username, password, authentication code

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I think my question was clear enough. The comment didn't mention banks, I've never had a bank that did that, and we generally don't try to hide our identities from our banks anyway. My best guess was that they misunderstood how public/private keys work, but since that was only a guess, I asked.