> we should all be paranoid over things like the Mobile Authentication Taskforce and "Project Verify" where the US cell carriers are colluding to form a new aut

> we should all be paranoid over things like the Mobile Authentication Taskforce and "Project Verify" where the US cell carriers are colluding to form a new authentication/identification to replace passwords with single-factor phone identification. There's lots of infosec paranoia is ill-based in reality but I've got to concur here. It's gotten so easy and uncomplicated to social-engineer a fraudulent port / SIM swap that there's an entire cottage industry of bored teenagers that do exactly that, in part to commandeer Instagram accounts with coveted usernames. Basing authentication/identification on an industry that's simultaneously pathologically incompetent (fraudulent ports/SIM-swaps) and also grossly evil (selling real-time locations of all their subscribers without their consent to a phantasmagorically layered and non-auditable set of resellers and intermediaries) when it comes to security is pure folly.