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On this line of thinking, one of my concerns is that SMS (to my Google Voice number, which is the app I exclusively use for phone calls and SMS) is the method t
by warner25 4y ago
On this line of thinking, one of my concerns is that SMS (to my Google Voice number, which is the app I exclusively use for phone calls and SMS) is the method that many services use for two-step verification, even if my other texts aren't sensitive.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoGood point. Still... let's say I'm logging on to a website that uses 2FA. They send me an SMS with a one-time code in it. An attacker reads that code. The attacker then has to hijack my browser session on a different device (since I'm not using internet on my phone). For them to do that, they already own my laptop (or maybe my wireless router or my DSL modem), and have been able to correlate them with my phone. That's possible, but at that point I'm pretty much in trouble anyway.