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A comment on Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number.

Re:Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number by diveanon on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:26AM (#21603840)
I hope paypal and transferwise follow this example. International travelers have been suffering for years due to this horrible ux.

SMS based 2FA is a farce, I look forward to it going extinct.

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Re:Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number by adambowles on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:26AM (#21604116)
PayPal[1] and TransferWise[2] already support TOTP, am I missing something?

[1] https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/faq4057

[2] https://transferwise.com/help/12/managing-your-profile/29321...

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Re:Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number by diveanon on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:40AM (#21605423)
Both require that you have sms based 2fa first. I have had this conversation with both of their support departments and its a non starter.
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