What's to stop hackers entering their own phone number when verifying an account?

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What's to stop hackers entering their own phone number when verifying an account? Oobies 1/12/12 4:03 AM I just logged into YouTube for the first time in a while. Immeadiately I am redirected to a page that tells me that my account has been doing some suspicious activitiy, can I please verify it by entering my phone number so that it can send me a messa
Re: What's to stop hackers entering their own phone number when verifying an account? BloodOfAmon 1/12/12 8:55 AM If they can hack your Youtube, they can hack your email.
Re: What's to stop hackers entering their own phone number when verifying an account? bicho49 6/26/12 12:08 PM I couldn't agree more with Oobies... how is "cell phone verification" going to work?  For all I care, if I'm an evil hacker, I can simply type my own phone number and voila, "I've verified I'm the user". Can someone at google/youtube enlighten us on
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