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00:00​ I hacked Linus!
00:59​ How Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak hacked the telephone network
02:22​ Early history of the telephone
07:08​ The kidnapping of Sheikha Latifa
08:41​ How Signalling System No. 7 works
11:03​ Why SS7 is vulnerable to hacking
12:15​ How hackers gain access to phones
16:17​ How I was able to spy on Linus’ phone
18:09​ How hackers can intercept text messages
21:04​ How your location can be tracked via SS7
29:03​ How to protect your phone from hacking

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[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

How would they get past the other factor, the password?

If you're gonna say "SMS can be used to reset the password" then it starts to sound like you're complaining about insecure password reset processes, not 2FA.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Password are routinely stolen, then bought and sold on hackers' marketplaces. That's how.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, but that argument can be made against TOTP too.

SMS 2FA is less secure than TOTP, but still better than no second factor, since most criminals with access to a password database aren't able to take over your phone number (on a large scale).

With most services allowing some kind of password reset over SMS, I also prefer no 2FA over SMS 2FA. I already lost an account because I changed my number.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Some people really don't understand layered security.

Too many of them are programmers.

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