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Dude, what? How many services require SMS 2FA again? Your phone is indeed a SPOF. If you lose your phone, you're fucked in a variety of scenarios. To say nothi
by pdntspa 4y ago
Dude, what? How many services require SMS 2FA again?
Your phone is indeed a SPOF. If you lose your phone, you're fucked in a variety of scenarios. To say nothing of services that require a custom app and accept nothing else.
- Dr_ReD 4y agoYep! I have all of the things above (yubikeys, many PCs, a couple voip numbers with SMS, ability to emulate Android on PC, a host of old smarphones...) still, if I lose the one smartphone on which -that- custom app is installed, I'm hosed. And I can't even install the app on a second phone, because: ah, ha! Only one at a time! There is no installing two, Luke. Only one there will be. (There you go... quotation inception.)
- BoredPuffin 4y agoThanks for addressing me as "Dude" and using the f-word! 1. OP is asking smartphone; SMS 2FA does not require a "smartphone", but "mobile phone". 2. Alternative options mentioned above should you be in the misfortune of losing your... "phone"
- Dr_ReD 4y ago> Thanks for addressing me as "Dude" and using the f-word! Sensitive, ha? > 1. OP is asking smartphone; SMS 2FA does not require a "smartphone", but "mobile phone". Nitpicking and strawman argument. They're both part of, and compounding, the same problem. > 2. Alternative options mentioned above should you be in the misfortune of losing your... "phone" Sure they "should", but they're often not offered... even if you insist. And more often than not, the alternative options available take weeks of phone calls and visits to the local (if you're lucky to have one) branch office of your /whatever service failed you/.
- pdntspa 4y agoI hate to put this to you, but your post sounds like a whinge on my language, dude