Re:Personal information and ads on Twitter
by ubercow13 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:28AM
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That depends on the way the phone company operates surely? You can’t do it if you are abroad, or if it’s a prepay SIM and the phone company doesn’t know your identity. Some telcos will give your number to somebody else if you don’t connect with the network for too long.
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Re:Personal information and ads on Twitter
by laughinghan on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:01PM
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Sure, you're totally right that in some cases, physically losing a phone also means loss of that phone number. But in 100% of cases, physically losing a phone means loss of those TOTP tokens.
For the vast majority of people, that's a dealbreaker, in spite of SMS being deeply flawed, as the comment you originally replied to said.