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> most new iPhones and Android phones by default will display the actual contents of your messages on the lock screen On iPhones by default the contents are on
by oktoberpaard 4y ago
> most new iPhones and Android phones by default will display the actual contents of your messages on the lock screen
On iPhones by default the contents are only shown after your face is recognized by FaceID.
That being said, I don’t like to have one factor authentication tied to my phone number, especially not when I’ve enabled two factor authentication in the settings. I guess the logic behind this decision is that they see your password as the weakest link, so for them 2FA is not so much about having a second factor, but about not being able to use the password as the only factor.
- Havoc 4y agoIn the UK there is currently a string of people getting cleaned out 100% after having their wallet and phone stolen at gyms and its suspected this - 2FA visible on locked phone - is the main issue
- zoover2020 4y agoAny more details on that? Sounds interesting from a tech perspective
- Havoc 4y agoThey're cracking open gym lockers, grabbing phone and bank cards, using knowledge of the bank name, person name and access to the SMS OTP visible on phone to relink a fresh cellphone banking app. That's the speculation anyway & there are some gaps in the theory. But yeah basically they're gaining access to the entire bank a/c and doing thousands of damage instead of usual credit card stuff which is obv protected legally
- CTOSian 4y agoIt is the shite way the Paypal and I think Amazon does this : they put the code at the start of the SMS, other OTP providers sent it in the middle/end of the SMS, so even if someone set the display of text messages as 'enabled' on the locked screen , they are truncated and you can't see the code (but not in the case of Paypal)- you need to unlock the screen to read the full text YMMV as some SMS apps display it full.