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Professionalism and quality of bureaucracy vary by country. In mine, my provider invalidated my SIM twice during their technology upgrades (2G->3G, 3G->4G) wit
by lovelearning 4y ago
Professionalism and quality of bureaucracy vary by country.
In mine, my provider invalidated my SIM twice during their technology upgrades (2G->3G, 3G->4G) without any notice, warning, or hint. Was it an upgrade? Was I phished? It's all left to the user to infer what happened. And if it turns out to be a crime, our rules expect us to interact with an even more apathetic and corrupt police department.
What may look like hyperbole in one country is daily ground reality in another. I'd much rather prefer something under my own control, like TOTP, over anything SIM-based.
- dmingod666 4y agoFair enough, but, you then have the problem of not being able to cater to people with feature phones. I think a combined email or SMS based options solve most problem cases. I don't understand the hate for SMS, like "how are these people in tech?" -- most banks I know of work on SMS based OTP. SMS also gives you a sorr of a real identity to work with and physical location in most common cases (not the app provider, but investigative authorities if they get involved).
- lovelearning 4y agoI'm personally fine with SMS-based 2FA for others. I just want banks and companies to give me my preferred alternatives.