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That you give a phone number for two step authentication. these guys did a great job of encrypting user passwords. but with something that is as stigmatized as cheating, right, just the fact that you have an account there is something that could be shameful. >> thank you so much for joining us tonight. still ahead the issue that makes hillary clinton different from barack obama. i'm mary thompson with your cnbc market wraps. stocks end down but off the low os of the day. the dow falls 162, the s&p shed 17 t nasdaq sinks 40. you do all this research on the perfect car.

Been asking them to do for a long time is start a two step authentication. instead of just having a password you have a password and something else, usually a code sent to some sort of device so instead of just, if someone gets your password or gets you to enter it in a phishing scam you're not totally hosed because they still have to have the device where you get the code sent before they can log in somewhere new. what i was able to learn today is twitter which has been, you know, they posted a job opening about this a few months ago, has that in place and they are hoping to roll it out soon....

In our system but what do we know about how twitter is responding and their security practices? you say you've called for that. people to be able to correct these things. what else could they do and what are they doing? >> one of the things people have been asking them to do for a long time is start a two step authentication. instead of just having a pass word you have a pass word and something else, usually a code sent to some sort of device so instead of just, if someone gets your pass word or gets you to enter it in a phishing scam you're not totally hosed because they still have to have th...

Involved more addresses and seeming corroboration of an initial report like this. it seems like this is a vulnerability in terms of at least the market's response to information like this that we don't quite have a handle on. is that fair? >> i think that's true. i think it is one of the reasons twitter has a pretty good ability to self-correct. you know, a lot of people weigh in and say especially if from one source that is wrong. i think it is one reason we need to be able to go back and correct our tweets now, a feature that i have called for and i've seen other people call for that i'd lov...