This should be far more secure and privacy friendly than a Sim card of a cellular connection. Why isn’t this done more often? What are the Pros and Cons. I bet the price is similar as well.

Hanrahan
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1121h

Still so much 2FA via SMS where I am in Aus.

I’d prefer to move everything over to something like Signal but I neeed a phone # to register for that but how do u tell the bank my Signal ID is @hanrhan.666

foremanguy
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Use SimpleX, no id no phone.

How do you tell your bank to use simplex to send you a verification code ?

foremanguy
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Sorry this is not for replacing banks verification

Well I’ve tried, but usually they just don’t respond to my emails

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