X is one step closer to removing recent reminders for Twitter

The According to X, if the login methods are not updated by November 10, the linked accounts will be updated It will be secured Until the update process is complete, abandoned accounts can Maybe it will be sold.

Active users who have keys associated with their accounts have been receiving notifications about the impending change for a while, and the X Safety team has explained the process in Illustration function: “This change is not related to any security concerns, and only affects Yubikes and passkeys – not other two-factor authentication methods (such as authenticator apps). Security keys registered as a 2FA method are currently associated with the twitter(.)com domain. Re-registering your security key will associate it with x(.)com, allowing us to deprecate the Twitter domain.”

Authentication methods such as hardware keys and passkeys must be updated Same reason They help protect against phishing attacks that try to trick you with fake Unicode characters or long addresses pointing to another website. It is tied to the domain in which it was originally set up, and will not recognize another domain, such as a link that uses a “|” The letter to look like a lowercase L or X.com instead of Twitter.com.

Security keys and passkeys are among the few items left since X officially She changed her field More than a year ago, I abandoned him The famous blue bird mascot A year before that. However, some final parts of the old Twitter domain are still hanging around, such as the X Posts embed page.