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Re:Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone nu... by thephyber on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:18PM (#24055100)
SS7 attacks scale better. SIM cloning is a lot of effort just to compromise a single SMS number.

In general, SMS is better than no 2FA, but it's weaker than OTP/OTH or a token like YubiKey or Titan.

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