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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh man it sure would be nice if the feds had the power to regulate something like this /s

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago (8 children)

They did. That's the reason for this hack, they wanted Lawful Interception, they got their backdoor. It's what professionals and privacy advocates said all along, if it exists it will be abused.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This isn’t a hack in the way you’re thinking of, nor is it a product of government mandated interception, or a back door. The salt typhoon event you’re referring to is nothing more than the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger problem, which is abuse of the dated SS7 system we’ve known about for decades.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why the hell is this in 4K HDR?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Only the best for the worst hack in history.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

id take email Authentication over sms Authentication if there was only them 2 let me use my 2facter app for the love of god plz i hate how banks use sms its like come on man

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ya just saying I don't like sms I wish email was encrypted maybe one day

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Been saying that for years. It's about damn time.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (11 children)

SMS spoofing and SIM swapping have been around for ages. It was never secure and that's always been known. The number of companies that rely on it despite sending me a zillion other fucking useless emails is too damn high! Email, or better yet, an authenticator app, are far more secure. Not perfect, but better.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

of course it is. forced 2fa BY SMS OF ALL THINGS is one of the stupidest ideas

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assume businesses only jumped at the chance to enable SMS 2FA to get their greedy little fingers on our phone numbers.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Even stupider is supporting hardware keys for MFA, but having SMS fallback which can't be disabled (looking at you, Vanguard). I'd much rather have email as my second factor than SMS, and I literally abandoned a bank (Ally) for removing email as an alternative to SMS.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Hollywood hacking has nothing on real hacking it seems.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (3 children)

in other news grass is green

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Thank god, give me my HMAC hash please.

Nothing more terrifying than losing your phone number these days because of all the accounts tied to it via 2FA.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't this happen quite awhile ago? I don't see anything new in this article

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The novelty is the fact that it's ongoing. They haven't mitigated the hack. The threat actors are still inside the networks, which is why the government is telling people to switch to E2EE apps.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I wish Signal stopped using it. I know you can set a Signal PIN but a lot of the non-techy friends I speak to on Signal probably wouldn't think to, or look through the settings (not that you need to be "techy" to set it, but you know the kind of learned helplessness most people have about tech). At least a prompt for all users to set an account PIN so their account can't just be stolen by anyone with their SIM card.

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