July 20, 2018 05:04 pm PDT
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Your phone company's shitty security is all that's standing between you and total digital destruction
Online services increasingly rely on SMS messages for two-factor authentication, which means on the one hand that it's really hard to rip you off without first somehow stealing your phone number, but on the other hand, once someone diverts your SMS messages, they can plunder everything (more…)
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