Social Media Companies: Tell it to Earth

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Social Media Companies: Tell it to Earth

How much longer is Twitter going to last?
	A few weeks
	A few months
	A few years
	About as long as the rest of humanity

aniviron: Sep 11, 2014

2FA via SMS can be less secure than nothing at all; in addition to social engineering and SIM swapping attacks, there are now services that let someone silently intercept SMS messages without the victim even knowing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-16-dollars-sakari-netnumber

These vectors of attack all require that you are specifically targeted by whomever is trying to take over your accounts, which is much less scary than mass credential breaches. Regardless, 2FA via SMS is not a secure method for things that are truly important.

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