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What about using a service like Twilio to receive texts?

• techsupporter 8y ago
  I think Twilio is running its own infrastructure so some of the attack risk is mitigated but there's still no prevention of doing things like temporarily rerouting SMS or other things like that through SS7 access. Point being, SMS-based "authentication" is so laughably insecure as to be pointless if you become a target of someone who wants into your checking account.
• rsync 8y ago
  This will not work. A Twilio Number cannot receive messages from a short code. Almost every single two factor authentication code from a bank or other institution comes from a short code. No number you receive or port into Twilio is Classified as a mobile number – so they cannot receive messages from short codes. I spoke to engineers from Twilio at the 2018 Signal conference and they confirmed - there is no technical limitation, but they would have to do a lot of work and deal with a lot of spam issues if they allowed their numbers to be classified as "mobile" and able to receive SMS from shortcodes - and they are declining to do that for now. So whether you source a new number from Twilio or port in an existing mobile number, once it hits Twilio it is no longer a mobile number. Yes, you can receive SMS/MMS from "normal" numbers just fine.