Security News Facebook Makes 2FA Easier to Set Up – Phone Number Is No Longer Required

Danielx64

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Today seems to be the day of two-factor authentication. Following Mozilla announcing 2FA for Firefox accounts, Facebook has announced making some changes to its system. The modified process allows Facebook users to set up 2FA without having to register a phone number with the company.

In a Facebook post, the social networking giant said that it has improved two-factor authentication in two ways:

Well that is good news for those who want to use Facebook but don't want to provide their phone number just to enable 2FA.
 

TairikuOkami

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I have noticed an increased number of people, who refused to give a phone number, asking, how to recover access to their account. Well, they have to create a new one. So much for people, who do not get the idea, what is the purpose of 2FA. :geek:

Like: Q&A - Facebook reset password

Emails are unreliable, I failed to receive emails from ~10% of critical services, but I have always received SMS from any service in the world.
 

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