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Almost anything (with exception of "3 easily googleable questions about you") is safer than sms. For example, emailing password reset link to my gmail account t
by caskstrength 6y ago
Almost anything (with exception of "3 easily googleable questions about you") is safer than sms. For example, emailing password reset link to my gmail account that is protected with real 2fa.
- lxgr 6y agoYes, and besides being more secure it is also more available: I'm much more likely to be able to receive email when resetting a password than I am to have cell reception and have the correct SIM card in my phone. (Examples for access to email but not SMS include: International travel, airplane Wi-Fi, bad cell signal.) I feel like much of what's wrong with SMS 2FA comes down to a misguided idea of "everyone has exactly one phone number", which is simply not true for a lot of people.