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by yokto 1060 days ago
What is the abuse your referring to?

With your suggested approach, the attacker is free to use the account to impersonate the victim until they get a new SIM card, which could easily take days or weeks.

This seems like a degredation compared to the current abuse potential which is mostly limited to logging you out.

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>This seems like a degredation compared to the current abuse potential which is mostly limited to logging you out.

I think it depends on who you ask. IIRC there was a stat that showed a substantial % of people only use WhatsApp rarely and they might not notice the deactivation and/or miss the 30 days deadline, getting their accounts deleted.