It always annoys me that SMS is less secure than other methods, yet 90% of sites seem to want you to add a phone number as a recovery method anyway meaning you can just bypass everything else
It’s to track you, plus it’s the easiest to implement, so it’s win win for them. Without some sort of regulation against it, companies will always do what is most profitable.
It always annoys me that SMS is less secure than other methods, yet 90% of sites seem to want you to add a phone number as a recovery method anyway meaning you can just bypass everything else
It’s to track you, plus it’s the easiest to implement, so it’s win win for them. Without some sort of regulation against it, companies will always do what is most profitable.
It’s not about security, it’s about data mining