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Email based authentication is lame. If a hacker gets access to your email, then they automatically have access to your 2FA. Lame.
by devoutsalsa 4y ago
Email based authentication is lame. If a hacker gets access to your email, then they automatically have access to your 2FA. Lame.
- pkulak 4y agoSo if a hacker gets access to your second factor, they have access to your second factor?
- lxgr 4y agoAnd if they get access to my phone number they get access to my texts and phone calls. That's why neither should ever be the only authentication factor (nor a single-factor recovery method for that matter). That said, my phone number is significantly easier to take over than my email address and mailbox.