[ken in texas]

As noted in the recent thread on FR - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3456388/posts, the SSA recently instituted two-factor authorization by requiring users to provide a cell phone number that could receive a text message.

The SSA has now dropped that requirement. I was able to log on this morning by providing only my username and password.

Apologies in advance if this has been posted already.

[from occupied ga]

It is kind of a PITA. They make you change your password to stuff you couldn’t possible remember and have to write down anyway.

[Gaffer]

The last two times I logged in they used the two factor thing.

[WKB]

Book mark

[Wonder Warthog]

Typical bureaucratic stupidity. What they want to do would have worked just fine IF they had allowed the "receipt and response" to be done by email as well as smartphone.

Think about it....if the person is trying to access his account FROM HIS COMPUTER, then email actually makes more sense than smartphone txt message. But allow the choice, and the problem goes away. Those who don't have smartphones are not shut out as they were with the original requirement.

[Carriage Hill]

There’s a box you can check to get around that BS, “Don’t send me any messages”.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is happening with most computer online access to anything sensitive — bank accounts, remote work locations. Its the wave of the future in computer security so people are going to have to get used to it. It really does help with hacking.

[Roccus]

PING

[Chgogal]

Is there a SS ping list? If so, I am in!