Comment by WalterBright
12 days ago
> Now every service demands your phone number to register
That appeared as a defense against people impersonating you, i.e. two factor authentication.
12 days ago
> Now every service demands your phone number to register
That appeared as a defense against people impersonating you, i.e. two factor authentication.
Weird that those same services don't send a login token to the registered number.
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.