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Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...



Not sure why you're getting downvoted, I hadn't heard of this before and found it quite amusing as well as somewhat relevant to the topic, although a blanket statement providing not much value.

My vote would just be not to vote (neutral). There is certainly more (in)appropriate stuff to downvote.


The key part here is to only post this comment under headlines for which the answer in "no".


What I normally do is remember the law, and generally I don’t click through headlines which are questions.

But this one felt more like it would be something a little deeper.

So then I clicked through - and the page fills up with the word “no”.

So I feel pretty duped.


As always, it works (the law, not the SMS 2FA)


I’m surprised I was downvoted too.

Honestly I think the headline is attention grabbing. A much more useful headline would have been “An analysis of the vulnerabilities of 2FA over SMS”.

But the Betteridge headline is in the domain name!




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