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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by throwway120385 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:04PM (#39473216)
TOTP is more secure in that you can't be simjacked by someone impersonating you in the cell phone store.
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by SpaethCo on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:45PM (#39474950)
That's assuming your attacker already has your password, or the service allows SMS password reset. (thus negating the second factor. Essentially SMS becomes the only factor.)
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