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>Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right?

And we didn't use to tie second-factor authentication into SMS messages to your phone number.



We didn't used to have two-factor authentication at all for most things though.


You're not supposed to do that today, either.




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