Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?= Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Codes sent by text message Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:40:45 +0100 Organization: Camembert Normand au Lait Cru Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:40:45 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="be454e3051dc94488365406ddd9e6ae0"; logging-data="376491"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+FTpeXY1I0dAjmZ5/gGuaD5MznE9o3TMo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/115.8.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YNPvzhNh+zE8e/bk0/9txFB0e7A= Content-Language: de-CH In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1828 Am 11.03.24 um 15:47 schrieb Chris: > Newyana2 wrote: >> "The Real Bev" wrote >> >> | WTF? Why is the google voice number not a REAL phone number? >> | >> As V said, the simple answer is that they want to spy. > > Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT after you. +1 > However, in this case it's by design not nefarious. The 'F' in. 2FA is > "factor" meaning that you need two different sources of truth. Your > password is one and a known device is the second. VOIP is neither known nor > a device so cannot be trusted as the endpoint could be almost anything. -- "Gutta cavat lapidem." (Ovid)