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Please Stop Using Text Messaging to Receive Login Codes

This week, a stunning story from Vice revealed how easy it is for an attacker to siphon away your text messages. They don’t need access to your phone; they don’t even need your SIM card. They just need to pay a trivial sum, convince a VoIP wholesaler that they’re a reseller (also a trivial matter), and sign a form swearing that they’re allowed to route messages to your number to another.