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And now every website has an excuse to require a verified phone number... I guess it probably does raise the baseline, but at the cost of those who have good s
by kevincox 2y ago
And now every website has an excuse to require a verified phone number...
I guess it probably does raise the baseline, but at the cost of those who have good security practices.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThere's a simple way to tell if 2FA is being used for security or to harvest phone numbers: Does the site let you use an email instead of a phone number? If you can't use an email, the purpose is to harvest phone numbers.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Does the site let you use an email instead of a phone number? Or TOTP.
- rustcleaner 2y agoTOTP is so good, it should be treated equally to or superior than phone number or e-mail as a requirement, by regulation, as an option for any site conducting business in US Dollars. E-mail is terrible for secure authentication. Banks have had plenty of time to implement this and haven't. TOTP can eliminate the password altogether, and make login usernames long-lived long TOTP or HOTP codes and I have just solved the terrible passkey problem!
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> TOTP can eliminate the password altogether Does anyone have TOTP-only authentication?
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoEmail is pretty reasonable for secure authentication. All but the most anachronistic mail servers use TLS these days and you're under no obligation to use any of the few that don't. The notion that email is insecure is from the old days when the links weren't encrypted. SMS, on the other hand, is an abomination to this very day and should not be used by anyone for anything.