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Multifactor auth done right (l.roofo.cc)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 10,000 support staff with dubious social engineering training at your service provider are not "something you have". Case in point literally a few weeks ago https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/verizon-fell-for-fake-search-warrant-gave-victims-phone-data-to-stalker/

[–] Kethal 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is an article describing someone impersonating an officer and submitting a fake warrant. It's incredible that Verizon fell for it, but what does it have to do with SMS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It means that if I want access to something that has been texted to you, I don't exactly need to be a government in order to get it.