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I remember in 2014 going to play a Bitcoin poker game at some Google VP's house way up in the hills, Charlie Lee was there. We tried to buy-in at the beginning to a pot address but no one could get their Coinbase SMS 2FA to work because we had no reception so we ended up writing IOUs on scraps of paper.
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It really is absurd that the same companies that won’t allow 2FA with any other method outside of SMS are the same ones not sending to VoIP. Maybe they all go through a service for SMS that blocks it, but it still upsets me. It’s insane to me that maybe every bank I use requires SMS 2FA, but random services I use support apps.
I've been using Citi and Discover for years with a Google Voice number. Possibly I've been grandfathered in though?
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I'm pretty sure you could always manually export a QR code for every one of your secret keys.
This was around 2016 and that was not an option at the time. edit: the app used to be open source: https://github.com/google/google-authenticator-android/ "By design, there are no account backups in any of the apps."
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I absolutely cannot stand that no bank I have (US) supports generic TOTP, which is more secure and easier to recover from backup if my phone is broken or stolen. It's inexcusable.
This is probably compliance-related. For me, TOTP isn’t “something I have”, it’s another thing I toss into my password manager and sync to all devices. I really agree with it, but that’s probably their rationale.
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compared to prices for the rest of the world, you wouldn't want to use Fi for data anyway... just get a local or even "travel" esim and run with dual sims.
I’ve found that it’s easy to data-only eSIM package through an app store app such as Saily, but it’s harder to find a service that gives you a “real” phone number when traveling internationally. Any recommendations?
* Tello
* Red Pocket
* Good to Go Mobile
If you’re looking for a real local phone number in the location you’re traveling to, then eSIM providers like Airalo can handle that (Airalo has “global plans” that support voice and SMS). Getting such a connection for voice and SMS, as compared to a data SIM alone, would be expensive. So you could get a data eSIM that works locally and use that for “WiFi” calling/SMS with the providers mentioned above.
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> Subscribe to mightytext.net so you can get SMS on your computer. I don't know if this works if your cell phone can't get signal It can't – how would it? The only entity that can forward texts is the carrier, and I doubt that that service is integrated with all US carriers to somehow get them forwarded (which is technically quite difficult for various legacy protocol reasons). Apple's satellite messaging service is…
> Apple's satellite messaging service is the only solution I know of that can somehow hook into carriers' SMS home router Are you sure it actually does this? I thought it was a pseudo-carrier that could speak MAP / Diameter, and just pretended you were roaming with them when you used satellite connectivity, perhaps with the original carrier's knowledge and consent. As far as I understand, that's how this kind of serv…
Would that approach also allow the extra functionality they seem to be offering, such as only recently messaged numbers and emergency contacts being able to send messages to satellite users, though? I suppose they could just reject all MT-Forward-SM with sender numbers they don't like?
> As far as I understand, that's how this kind of service usually gets implemented.
Do you have any other examples for solutions like this? Are you thinking of (pre-VoWifi) carrier apps or services that could receive texts, sometimes on multiple devices?
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It really is absurd that the same companies that won’t allow 2FA with any other method outside of SMS are the same ones not sending to VoIP. Maybe they all go through a service for SMS that blocks it, but it still upsets me. It’s insane to me that maybe every bank I use requires SMS 2FA, but random services I use support apps.
I've been using Citi and Discover for years with a Google Voice number. Possibly I've been grandfathered in though?
I wonder what the companies requiring 2FA think about uncompleted 2FA bounces. Deterred fraudster? Short attention span? SMS sucks?