[PLUG] Security headaches

[John Sechrest]

As a work around, you can create a google voice "virtual number".
https://voice.google.com/u/0/voicemail

You can then configure this to ring any other number you want.

You can then get your SMS notices as email as well as your voice mails.

This way you can provide 2 factor authentication without having a phone
that takes texts.

You want to have some form of 2 factor authentication to make it harder for
people to break into your account. The nice thing for most people about the
texting is that they typically always have their phone with them, so the
response cycle is very quick, and limited in who can access it.



On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:45 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> In another thread:
>
> >Related, my daughter lost all of her iPhone data when it died in some
> >way. She had a false sense of security with backups and somewhat to
> >their credit, Apple makes it impossible for the "enemy" to get into a
> >phone. However, that prevented the ONE AUTHORIZED USER from any chance
> >of getting their data back.
>
> For the umpteenth time I have been locked out of my Facebook account.
> The page pops up a request for a phone number they can text a code to,
> but I don't have a phone that can take text messages. And why would I
> want to give them my phone number, anyway?
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