Facebook's Account Kit Login System Works Via Phone Numbers, No Passwords Needed (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @10:01PM from the can-I-have-your-number? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: At this year's F8 developer conference, Facebook announced a new tool called Account Kit, which can be used by app developers to support phone number-based login systems. Every time the user wants to login, they have to enter their phone number. Facebook will then send them a verification code via SMS, which they have to enter on the site. The system was already tested live, and Facebook expects it to be widely adopted, allowing sites to offer users accounts that don't require them to memorize a new password. Each developer has a 100,000 free confirmation SMS messages per month quota. Facebook claims to support SMS login operations for over 230 countries and regions, and in 40 different languages.

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Slowly but surely by Sean · 2016-04-12 22:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

Everything is being tied back to real identity and it's becoming more and more difficult to publish anything without leaving a trail back to yourself.
1. Re:Slowly but surely by butzwonker · 2016-04-12 23:24 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  ... which happens to be every culture on earth.
steal your phone and your login by brucellin0 · 2016-04-12 22:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

great, so someone steals my phone and has automatic access to the logins too.