Re:As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many option...
by brianwawok on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:06PM
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It's a pretty low bar. I think if you know SSN you are good to go to do anything at Tmo, including a number port. Which means phone as a 2fa is very easy to beat.
Re:As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many option...
by joseda-hg on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:48PM
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I was about to freak out, then I remembered that there's no ID in the US
I can't change anything about my phone without providing both a "Public" (Taxpayer Code: Doesn't change, commonly shared, also used as a state bank account number) and "Private" (Document number: changes per renovation, only shared for identification purposes) number
Re:As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many option...
by kube-system on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:07PM
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Well, it's not so much that there's "no ID" as much as it is that we have hundreds of IDs.
Some carriers in the US have you set a PIN number for phone porting. Although, people still forget them.
Re:As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many option...
by brianwawok on Thursday April 27, 2023 @06:15PM
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You provide a SSN and they will give you the porting pin (or let you pick it more likely)
The GP is concerned that Tmobile allows hackers to impersonate you/your wife on the phone.
You're concerned that even after providing all possible account details - password, PIN, last four of her SSN, last bill amount, anything else they might want to ask that's not literally a live biometric scan - they can't distinguish the two of you just because you don't sound like a woman.
Perfection is unattainable.