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Re:Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to ... by nicbou on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:45AM (#33966618)
SMS is a much bigger issue if you are in another country, temporarily lose access to your phone, or work in a building without phone reception. It's prone to SIM swaps and could be intercepted by other apps on your phone. It requires having a fixed, serviced phone number, which people don't always have: children, homeless people and recent immigrants might struggle with that.

All of these scenarios happened to me, and I'm a fairly normal person.

Re:Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to ... by class4behavior on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:25PM (#33978330)
SMS isn't an issue because you can just take out the SIM card and insert it elsewhere. What you're talking about wasn't the subject I was addressing.