X is getting closer to removing the last reminders of Twitter

X se prépare à mettre Twitter.com en pâture, et le compte officiel @Safety publié vendredi avertit toute personne utilisant des clés de sécurité physiques ou des mots de passe pour 2FA qu’elle devra les réinscrire. According to

Active users with keys attached to their accounts have been receiving notifications about the impending change for some time, and the X Safety team explained the process in a clarification post: “This change is not related to any security issues and only affects Yubikeys and access keys – not other 2FA methods (such as authenticator apps). currently linked to Twitter.[.]com domain. Re-registering your security key will associate them with x[.]com, allowing us to remove the Twitter domain.

Authentication methods like hardware keys and passwords should be updated for the same reason that they help protect you from phishing attacks that try to trick you with fake Unicode characters or long addresses pointing to another website. They are linked to the domain they were originally created with and will not recognize another domain, such as a link using a “| » character to look like a lowercase L or X.com instead of Twitter.com.

Security keys and passwords have been among the few holdouts since X officially changed domains more than a year ago and abandoned its iconic bluebird mascot a year before that. There are, however, a few last fragments of the old Twitter domain remaining, such as the X post embed page.