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WalterBright
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Slop Terrifies Me
> Now every service demands your phone number to register
That appeared as a defense against people impersonating you, i.e. two factor authentication.
Timon3
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Weird that those same services don't send a login token to the registered number.
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account42
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If that was the case then TOTP would be available as an alternative but often enough it isn't even though SMS are less secure and more costly to implement.
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That appeared as a defense against people impersonating you, i.e. two factor authentication.