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by highwaylights 1372 days ago
You’re right and fair enough.

I do feel though that SMS porting is such a lax system that using it as an authentication factor leads you into a lot of (SMS && social-engineering) situations that would be more preventable if SMS was not involved.

I say this fully realising that in this scenario the party allowing allowing these attacks to work due to poor understanding or lack of proper checks is the real problem.