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A state actor wouldn't even break a sweat getting around 2FA, individually or at scale, if the 2nd factor involves SMS (or the phone system in general) (which,
by jewbacca 10y ago
A state actor wouldn't even break a sweat getting around 2FA, individually or at scale, if the 2nd factor involves SMS (or the phone system in general) (which, for 99% percent of the 1% of people using it, it currently does):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishfire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishfire
It's not even out of the question for malicious private actors who don't have total control over the whole system:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/the-limits-of-sms-for-2-factor-authentication/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/the-limits-of-sms-for-2-...