• neclimdul@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    “improve security”

    isn’t basically common knowledge at this point phone recovery methods decrease security? How do companies keep getting away with this.

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      11 hours ago

      It depends entirely on the implementation. Is it genuinely a “second factor”? Or are they just going to let you use one or the other? Because MFA is a real benefit to account security, even if SMS is the weakest version of it.