How to make it harder for porn-bots to take over your account
As you may have seen, porn bots are hijacking people’s accounts and uploading photos of random girls with links underneath them.
It might not bring the ultimate eradication of these bots, but with these small security setting tweaks, we can at least make some difference.
Since Tumblr does not have a default e-mail verification system, anyone can change your account details as long as they know how to log in. Let’s make that a bit harder for them, shall we?
- In your Tumblr account settings, you will see 2 security options: “Email me about account activity“ and “Two-factor authentication”.
- Enable “Two-factor authentication”. This will show you a QR code.
- If you don’t already have the Authenticator app, download it from the Google or Apple store (it’s published by Google) on your smartphone. It looks like this:
- Add a new key, scan the barcode provided by Tumblr and a code will appear in your list. This is your “Account Password”. Enter it and Tumblr will remember that your current device is a verified, safe system.
Now, if anyone tries to log in on a new device, they will need to enter an Account Password.
Let me know if anything is unclear. I hope this helps tempering these nasty bots a bit.
P.S. Since these bots seem to be appearing more and more on other social media websites as well, Twitter also has a security option that is not activated by default where you can receive a verification code through SMS.
