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Re:For Ransom, Bitcoin Replaces the Bag of Bills by eru on Sunday July 26, 2015 @07:20AM (#9950755)
Use the cryptography based 2FA (with Google Authenticator on your phone). SMS is too open to social engineering, and as a second factor might actually make your account less safe.
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Re:For Ransom, Bitcoin Replaces the Bag of Bills by ikeboy on Sunday July 26, 2015 @07:45AM (#9950788)
Think I read that Google Auth falls back to SMS, so that wouldn't help.
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Re:For Ransom, Bitcoin Replaces the Bag of Bills by y4mi on Sunday July 26, 2015 @12:01PM (#9951377)
you can freely choose between enabled authentication methods.

so, its possible to disable the sms authentication by removing it in the security settings

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