This is why I’d rather have the phone number/email 2fa than a device 2fa even with the risk of sim swap.
If a human can’t give me my account back through tech support I’m not very keen on trusting my account a gadget that can break or get lost.
The risk of losing a phone and the backup codes is probably several orders of magnitude larger than the risk of being the target of a sim swap attack for the vast majority of users.
If a human can’t give me my account back through tech support I’m not very keen on trusting my account a gadget that can break or get lost.
The risk of losing a phone and the backup codes is probably several orders of magnitude larger than the risk of being the target of a sim swap attack for the vast majority of users.