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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by koolba on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:55PM (#23534028)
Fun fact: If your 2FA is based on SMS then you can’t log in until this is resolved.
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by partiallypro on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:40PM (#23535745)
Off topic, but I had 2FA setup on my phone for various things, and had it stolen overseas. I was able to lock the phone and erase it...but I was stuck overseas without being able to access anything or reset it. There has to be a better way.
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by 0xdeadb00f on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:55AM (#23536884)
TOTP with password protected key backups in the cloud?

(Bonus: recovery keys you keep offline, in your wallet or something)

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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by partiallypro on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:08PM (#23540815)
I did have some keys backed-up in the Cloud. One issue is that because I was overseas a lot of security protocols locked me out of my accounts -despite- my keys and required an SMS message first...which of course I didn't have a phone with my SIM, so it was impossible to do.
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by mrgzg1 on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:37PM (#23534334)
Literally wasted my whole day on this :(
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by acruns on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:33PM (#23534306)
typically you just disable the 2fa requirement until the issue is resolved.
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by alanbernstein on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:32PM (#23534687)
If you can disable 2FA, without using 2FA to authenticate first... is it 2FA?
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by deadwing0 on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:04PM (#23534893)
Many sites give you a recovery code of some sort that you can use to disable 2fa in the event you were to lose access to your authenticator app or texts.
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by adrianpike on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:37PM (#23534716)
Well I'm sure you'd have to enter your password to disable 2FA.

/s, obviously.

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