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Re:Living without a SIM card by ryukafalz on Sunday February 09, 2020 @07:01AM (#22281699)
Not always. If the provider can be social engineered into granting you access to the account after proving access to that number then I’m not sure “better than nothing” is that solid.
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Re:Living without a SIM card by NotSammyHagar on Sunday February 09, 2020 @03:15PM (#22284059)
It's potentially worse than nothing because you can steal someone's sim card and then use that to reset their account password. This is because (as in almost every company that uses text messages for 2fa) you use the sms to authenticate the reset.
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Re:Living without a SIM card by jotm on Sunday February 09, 2020 @07:37AM (#22281798)
Better than having a strong password bypassed using shoddy recovery procedures.
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Re:Living without a SIM card by icebraining on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:41PM (#22283908)
Of course, that means it's not 2FA, just 1FA.
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