> Virtually the entire security industry agrees that using phone numbers for account security is an antipattern because of sim-jacking, and yet swaths of the b

> Virtually the entire security industry agrees that using phone numbers for account security is an antipattern because of sim-jacking, and yet swaths of the biggest tech companies in the industry do it anyway. From the security side, this is incredibly frustrating. Very often there's someone in product management who insists that users love SMS-factor. That it's great because users don't have to use a special app or transfer it when they change phones. They will be backed up by an engineer who swears that SMS is great because using a TOTP app is an unacceptable corporate imposition on their personal device. Meanwhile, someone in finance quietly sobs as they pay the Authy or Twilio bill, but nobody seems to care about the opex budget.