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Phone numbers are just a liability: - It is kind of expensive, - You are forced to provide it to many official institutions, - It is the default or mandatory
by sunshine-o 4mo ago
Phone numbers are just a liability:
- It is kind of expensive,
- You are forced to provide it to many official institutions,
- It is the default or mandatory insecure 2FA for many institutions,
- It always get leaked somewhere and is one of the most common/reliable identifier.
We still have them around governments and telcos love it and old people and scammers are its last users.
- frollogaston 4mo agoThe cost is a feature. Kinda also the case with IPv4 addresses.
- sunshine-o 4mo agoSame problem with IPv4. We've been paying for v4 and v6 for decades but somehow we cannot get rid of v4. My guess is there are a lot of interests at play.