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by codedokode 658 days ago
If you don't use 2FA then the government can simply intercept SMS code for any phone number. Russian government did it against opposition activists, and it prompted Telegram to add a password as second factor. So any service which allows login or restoring access using SMS (incluging Gmail in default configuration) is vulnerable to such kind of attacks. It seems that people in the West are unaware of this type of attack.