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I disagree. SMS 2FA is much worse than nothing, unless a service has no password reset option via SMS alone. I believe many services do allow this, including Gm
by meowface 7y ago
I disagree. SMS 2FA is much worse than nothing, unless a service has no password reset option via SMS alone. I believe many services do allow this, including Gmail. Barring password re-use (which admittedly is common), it's way, way easier and faster to spend 15 minutes discovering someone's phone number and calling their provider to request a SIM swap than trying to bruteforce their password via the service's login page/API.
If it's truly always 2FA, including two-factor password reset (need SMS verification code in addition to email verification code), than it's probably better than nothing. But otherwise, it's actually a major exposure you're opening up for yourself, especially if you otherwise have good password practices (no re-use, and ideally pseudo-randomly generated from a password manager).