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by CtrlAltT5wpm 2040 days ago
One of the only reasons I'm still with Google Voice is because having your number with them mitigates (far as I can tell) SIM swap attacks. Yeah, someone can swap my SIM, but effectively nothing goes to the carrier number, just the GV number, which is much harder to socially engineer (even if some of that is because it's impossible to get someone on the phone).

If you tightly lock down your GV account, it should be much more difficult to compromise than a random cell carrier. I don't know if there's a comparable service, but I'm dying to pay for one, if only to not have a single point of failure.
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kls 2040 days ago
Yeah you nailed the reason that I still use them as my primary number. The problem is who knows if they will kill voice. It just seems random when they decide to kill products. I imagine that they have some kind of scorecard for apps, but it's a precarious place to be that your primary number sits with a product that could be killed on a whim. I agree with you, I would pay in a heartbeat for a service that I knew was going to stick around.
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TechBro8615 2040 days ago
I’m quite happy with GV for my 2FA except for the fact that some banks refuse to deliver messages to it.
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