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  • A very important point

SMS 2-Factor Authentication is not good. It’s better than nothing, but it’s not as good as using something like Google Authenticator. Here’s an article about the issue on Wired from two years ago.

As a reader of this blog, please promise me you’ll avoid using SMS authentication if you have the option for one your important services such as banking, email, phone, etc.

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