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That depends on the way the phone company operates surely? You can’t do it if you are abroad, or if it’s a prepay SIM and the phone company doesn’t know your id
by ubercow13 7y ago
That depends on the way the phone company operates surely? You can’t do it if you are abroad, or if it’s a prepay SIM and the phone company doesn’t know your identity. Some telcos will give your number to somebody else if you don’t connect with the network for too long.
- laughinghan 7y agoSure, you're totally right that in some cases, physically losing a phone also means loss of that phone number. But in 100% of cases, physically losing a phone means loss of those TOTP tokens. For the vast majority of people, that's a dealbreaker, in spite of SMS being deeply flawed, as the comment you originally replied to said.