• fucking annoying
  • can’t believe they sold people that it’s BETTER to have to get your phone out to login
  • incredibly annoying
  • if you’re using this willfully you’re clearly just as worried about security as before anyway
  • companies love having real phone numbers to pair with ‘their’ data
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    Microsoft gave the option to call and you hit pound. I prefered that overall. works with any kind of phone.

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      Phone numbers can be spoofed and calls can be redirected. Or, even better, conditional call forwarding is supported by most carriers. It can be set up and you’ll never know. Then they get the phone call and not you

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          Right but the point they’re making is it’s a lot easier for a third party to intercept a code that has to be sent to you than it is for them to get the code from an authenticator app since they’re generated on your device. At that point you pretty much need physical access to the phone.

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            im osrry so a hacked device would not show the authenticator code? I really don’t see the difference here. Again its not each bit being so un breachable as much as they would have to have to breach both parts. I really don’t think its taht easy to redirect all the calls that are supposed to go to my phone.

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              One is much easier to accomplish than the other and doesn’t give the target the same chance to realize something is going on.