Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop implementing SMS/phone 2FA

Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by bheadmaster on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:06AM (#33435993)

In my country, you can buy a pre-paid SIM in a store without providing any kind of ID, making it impossible to retrieve the phone number once you lose it.

I'd be very surprised to learn that such things are not possible in the US.

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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by dmingod666 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:15AM (#33436142)

I don't doubt your claim, I think it's more common to have ID verification across the world.

That aside, I think at one point if people make dumb choices, they're screwed, can't do anything about it..

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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by bheadmaster on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:36AM (#33436500)

> I think at one point if people make dumb choices, they're screwed, can't do anything about it

I don't think that a single "dumb" choice should result in people being screwed. Especially if the "dumb" choice is not really a dumb choice, except for "this one particular scenario in which it's dumb", like pre-paid SIMs. Quite a convenient way to blame the party damaged by big corp's bad decisions.

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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by dmingod666 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:22PM (#33446117)

What I meant to say was, there needs to be a cut-off point for company responsibility. Agree, there should be other alternatives to SMS incase a user get locked out.

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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by bheadmaster on Thursday November 03, 2022 @02:00PM (#33454890)

Oh, my bad. In that case, I agree with what you're saying.

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