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"textContent": "Welcome to the forum!\n\nFirst I am not an OpenAI employee.\n\nI looked for a direct answer to that in the OpenAI documentation, FAQ, issues, etc. and by having ChatGPT search and we could not find a direct answer.\n\nChatGPT did note\n\ndevelopers.openai.com\n\n### Authentication – Codex | OpenAI Developers\n\nSign-in methods for Codex\n\nand in paticular this statement\n\n> Codex cloud interacts directly with your codebase, so it needs stronger security than many other ChatGPT features.\n\nHTH",
"title": "Why does the Codex app now require a phone number during login?"
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