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		kick on Jan 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SMS is not 2FA-secure I thought this was going to be one of the otherwise-plaintext black and white web pages with <h1>NO.</> centered in the middle, but interestingly it's actual research, and a nice read (even if nothing new) at that.

33Backpack33 on Jan 15, 2020 | [–]

If it's nothing new then why do people keep saying it's better to have SMS 2FA then to not have it. The research says "websites should eliminate SMS based MFA altogether".

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