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But that is not really true for most countries. In my country, to get a sim ported you need to go to the shop and present your identification.
by michael_j_x 6y ago
But that is not really true for most countries. In my country, to get a sim ported you need to go to the shop and present your identification.
- baybal2 6y agoWell, if somebody can mess with ss7 they wouldn't need even that.
- bawolff 6y agoSocial engineering is all about convincing people to do things they aren't supposed to do.
- flemhans 6y agoSame here (Denmark with Hi3G), but they often forget. I've had a new SIM issued for myself just by saying the phone number. Of course that's several orders of magnitudes harder to do than just finding a leaked password somewhere, so it's still nice to have SMS as 2FA compared to nothing. It'll stop the mass bots.
- jfrunyon 6y agoIn all countries, you have but to prove to some lowly paid telco employee's satisfaction that you are the owner of the number. That is not a serious impediment.