Re:Tell HN: Please Remove SMS as a 2nd Factor
by 2rsf on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:38AM
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> elitist
You can have a cheap second hand phone (Nokia 1200 ?) and a pre-paid SIM with no balance. The setup will cost you something like £10 and the above Nokia 1200 have a standby time of 390 hours or more than two weeks !
On top of that, your phone might not have battery, forgotten somewhere, died etc.
I think a simple password + fingerprinting measures (recognising the user based on his browser, IP, machine, behaviour etc.) to enable further checks (2FA with either mail, phone, device, security questions), and further messages in the future in case the attacker had access to that creates a better user experience / risk factor.