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reaperducer on Jan 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: SMS is not 2FA-secure

HN seems to be getting a lot of these submissions lately where the question asked in the title is the same as the domain name. Sometimes the content of the page doesn't even answer the question.

Feels like some kind of spammy PageRank manipulation going on. I'm happy to be wrong about this, but I wanted to see if anyone else has noticed. Maybe I'm just smoking crack waffles again.

gowld on Jan 10, 2020 | [–]

This is clearly a PR effort associated with the research paper hosted on the site.

It's a single-purpose domain name, so the Name of the domain is the same as the Name of the content on the domain.

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