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All the arguments in the post against SMS 2FA are also arguments against TOTP

There is no help desk that can give away your TOTP secret. That’s the big weakness with SMS, someone buys a phone and asks the clerk to give them your phone number.

It is a publicized weakness. In practice, phishing is scalable and social engineering isn’t. And humans are shit at detecting phishing attacks.

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