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What do you guys think about these passwords? I understand that they're easily hackable if someone got ahold of the actual hashed password somehow. But they seem impossible to gues…

Holy. Shit. That would have been a freaking disaster if that happened to us, especially having to re-tool the application for new SIDs. I'm a little surprised that there is not a c…

What was the nature of the problem you had with them? Mostly I can forget they exist and do other things with my business. But my use case is very vanilla: no outbound automated ma…

I think you are right that it's not a valid use case anymore, even if they still assert that it is, because the reality is that it caused this problem. Even if they had responded t…

Which pricing tier do you use? I've been thinking of starting with the for a while. Now we use a hodgepodge of Skype and WhatsApp

It needs to be human readable, so maybe pig latin instead

Oh no, I didn't take it that way. I just thought what you said was very interesting and wanted to provide more information and confirm that you were correct.

I agree. Although this particular thing may have happened because they got backed into a corner by the carriers. They might have been forced to scramble and suspend a bunch of acco…

Yeah I think we're on the same page here. I mean its a complicated problem, they're under pressure to solve it. They were backed into a corner by the carriers and suspended my acco…

Yes I think you are right. But I don't think Twilio allows it unless I somehow register the number and authenticate that I own. I could be wrong, but I think they have a way for me…

It might be possible to register numbers with them, but they still could get in trouble with the actual carrier of the cell number so it might not even matter.

I'd be really curious to know if this is what happened. Whats more interesting is he lives in Spain and his cell phone is on a Spanish carrier. I also understand and agree with you…

It's not an unauthenticated open relay. It's like if you had a restaurant and you wanted to use Twilio. You might forward text messages sent to the restaurant number hosted on Twil…

Which provider did you end up using?

Oh I didn't even realize they had SMS. I was just thinking I could use push messages instead of SMS.

I read something about how Amazon was accidentally firing people in their warehouses due to an automated system. And the HR people in the warehouse didn't have the power to overrid…

Ok so are you saying that Twilio cannot be used to rely messages from company phone numbers to employee cells phones? I would understand if this was an edge case, but my understand…

I should clarify that these messages are being relayed internally to me and like two other people. It would not be possible for someone to use out software to spam people. We are n…

I'm going to guess that slack would not ban for this reason. It would not make sense at all.

You are really good at explaining these things. Very often people say things that I know are incorrect and actually sound quite stupid, but then I am unable to articulate why. I wa…

Hey Jeff, Thanks for taking the time to respond. The fact that you responded to this message at all resolves my initial concern, which had more to do with if I needed to change pro…

I'm going to have to cop to this. I was desperate and needed a way to get my phone calls up and running. I have many employees that rely on me to feed their families. We employ a l…

Yeah GoDaddy and HostGator are like this. Amazon EC2 is not. Also Google treats businesses like this if they have profiles on their maps. A business might rely on their google maps…

I think one of the key contexts here is being forgotten: These are all internal messages. Someone cannot use our system to text random people. It's literally one person seeing them…