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OTP Abuse and SMS Send Storms — Clarity Today

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OTP Abuse and SMS Send Storms

Bursts of one-time-password sends driven by resend loops or abuse, and the cooldown, cap, suppression and lockout policies that admit or refuse them.

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build1 distinct publisher

The OTP send-storm is an admission bug: cooldowns belong in the transaction, not the countdown

A dev.to writeup on Node passwordless phone login puts resend cooldowns, attempt caps and lockout in the database. The failure it names is two workers reading the same eligible challenge.

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Evidence34
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+12
Incentives58

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