Comment by UncleMeat
5 days ago
Everybody with a phone has SMS baked in. SMS also has a recovery process if you drop your phone in the toilet. Ultimately, this improved user experience outweighs the security benefit to TOTP for many organizations.
TOTP also doesn't stop the biggest threat that SMS faces: phishing. Saving you from sim-swap attacks is just not a particular huge increase in security posture.
My bank at least offers TOTP as an option, but the huge majority of people are going to enroll with SMS.
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