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Comment by penguindev

This article is conflating two things:

- two factor login (you need password + sms text)

- account recovery (using only a phone) THIS IS DUMB.

I only use an alternate email for recovery (my wife and I cross). Thus, each recovery account is still 2FA secured.

There's already been a story floating around about a young kid charging his dad's credit card because of the phone recovery option (he had the android phone in this case). This is NOT the same as 2FA auth.

parent penguindev 12 years ago

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