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soco 3 hours ago

2FA has tried to solve exactly this. Not many attacked people will hand over their password AND their phone. Yes I know, they might hand over one authentication code (and I know people who did exactly that)... We should also look into reducing the attack surface - if you get Instagram hacked you shouldn't get your Facebook hacked as well. But the current big tech centralization leads us to that single point of failure, because they don't care about the user's concerns only market grab. So... what now? Do we get the politics into this?

bigfishrunning 2 hours ago | parent [-]

One authentication code is often all that's needed to *change where the authentication codes are sent*

Not to mention that most 2FA still uses SMS, which has it's own well-understood security flaws.