Also, the recent Salt Typhoon revelations need to be screaming at you: Chinese intel (and probably others) can likely access SMS codes without hijacking the number, and that it's probably not far out of reach from criminal gangs considering foreign policy jockeying lately.
Phone verification is dead. Also, everyone should be adopting something like SimpleX (plus Orbot/Tor) and get away from unencrypted normie networks. If before it was just to reduce metadata footprint because data sells, now it's because you could be vulnerable to international criminal organizations which have access just as intimate as Salt Typhoon to US public comms infrastructure.
F***! Odds CISA gets funding cut under new admin? I could use a new job...
If we’re okay using our face to auth into all mobile apps (business, personal or otherwise) and also to auth into the country every time we fly into it, why not just move towards making it standard.
I'm not! If this sort of thing becomes standard, I will become digitally amish.
Some people prefer that their passwords not be public information.
A rational market observer would have assumed biometrics would have replaced antiquated passwords years ago.
Feels like this is a solved problem but Microsoft having a monopoly over business computing and software and there being no agreed upon standards for biometrics hardware is holding us back.