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Two-Factor Authentication Codes May Not Be So Private
Bloomberg Technology·2025-06-16 19:54

This is an investigation, a deep one, Ryan, just showing how actually we shouldn't really be using text SMS as a form of two factor authentication. That's right. Yeah.We we looked in depth at this issue because I think a lot of people don't realize that when you log to whether it's a banking app or whether it's Google or metal, when you receive one of these logging codes via SMS, it's not actually coming directly from the tech company or the platform that you're logging into is routed through intermediaries ...