How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works(ente.com)
351 points by subract | 65 comments
Ente blog post explaining how Shamir's Secret Sharing splits a secret into pieces so that a threshold of them can reconstruct it.
#account-recovery on Hacker News
3 stories tagged account-recovery, newest first.
Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user(brutecat.com)
554 points by brutecat | 174 comments
A security researcher's write-up describing how to bruteforce the phone number linked to any Google account, with a terminal demo of the exploit tool.
Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline(engadget.com)
443 points by jmsflknr | 251 comments
Engadget article on how users locked out of Meta accounts have turned to small claims court as a way to get customer support and restore access.