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> in my mind you have created a single point of failure for _yourself_. I use Authy for MFA

Since Authy requires an SMS verification for setup, now you’ve made yourself vulnerable to SIM jacking. A better approach would be to use a TOTP generator that doesn’t verify you by SMS.

In general, there’s no point in people dissing SMS OTP as insecure and at the same time adopting a service that uses it.



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