It’s time to ditch SMS-based 2 Factor Auth

Re:It’s time to ditch SMS-based 2 Factor Auth by jandrese on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:58PM (#16523872)

SMS 2FA does more than provide extra security for your account. Perhaps more importantly to companies like Facebook and Google it also makes it much harder for spammers and bots to register accounts. At the very least it adds the expense of buying a SIM so you can use the number just once.

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Re:It’s time to ditch SMS-based 2 Factor Auth by tomcooks on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:11AM (#16527599)

You can have a SIM registered on someone else's name for cheap on dark markets so i doubt price is a problem, especially when buying numbers in bulk

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Re:It’s time to ditch SMS-based 2 Factor Auth by jandrese on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:17AM (#16529314)

Risky if you're planning to use that SIM to prove that you're a legitimate person to a data mining company like Facebook or Google. That SIM gets reported stolen and your account could go up in flames, which is a big problem if you've been spending weeks grooming it to look real.

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