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Re:How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes by ipaddr on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:55PM (#28282482)
Why not take cheek samples?

Wouldn't a finger print be easier?

Why would you need to go to the store plenty of dna sequencing happens over the mail for ancestry and alike. Partner with them and offer discounted dna results.

Ideally you do this once and keep a card and use it everywhere.

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Re:How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes by k33l0r on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:59AM (#28286132)
Ah yes, the Ident-i-Eeze card from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy…

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/92742

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Re:How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes by ummonk on Monday August 23, 2021 @06:06PM (#28282579)
Yeah thinking about it more it's probably a cheek swab and not a blood prick. And yeah the card would be the more regularly used 2FA. The DNA test is just for when you lose your card.

As to doing it by mail, that may be potentially doable, but one would need to think through how to prevent e.g. stolen saliva, MITM mail sample interceptions, etc.

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