Facebook Dating

Re:Facebook Dating by dheera on Thursday September 05, 2019 @05:55PM (#20890994)

2FA by phone should be dead. SMS is insecure and I've deprecated it for all forms of communication with me. I use virtual numbers for all websites and banks that have stupid forced phone 2FA, including Facebook.

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Re:Facebook Dating by twothamendment on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:23AM (#20893302)

Sounds like a good idea. Virtual numbers from where?

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Re:Facebook Dating by dheera on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:29PM (#20898358)

Twilio is a good place to start and has a pretty feature-complete API. There are other alternatives as well.

Do note that some services aren't able to send SMS to virtual numbers in the US, for some reason. If that happens, try again with a virtual number in the UK or somewhere else, or if there is a voice call confirmation option that may also work for you as you can redirect the call programatically. Considering the phone numbers typically cost only $1/month each you can keep a few around to deal with this situation.

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Re:Facebook Dating by omarchowdhury on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:38PM (#20891289)

There's token based 2FA as well.

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Re:Facebook Dating by mfcl on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:03PM (#20892665)

Yes, we know that. They were talking about 2FA over SMS.

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