cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46348914
TIL your phone apparently does no or easily spoofed authentication of the identity of the base station it decides to connect to. Anyone know more about this and how it’s possible?
I have zero trust in any company that uses 2FA over SMS.
My bank (RBC) does, but luckily they also give me other options to choose from.
Tangerine doesn’t, and they also can’t get their website to work on firefox lol.
Damn. That sucks.
Should work. Although I’ve had authentication problems with Tangerine with Chrome and Firefox.
I’ve never had a problem with their website on Firefox. What issues do you have?
Ditto
You might want to start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS
Only a problem if you follow random links you get in your messages. So old people and the technologically illiterate.
So old people and the technologically illiterate.
Or anyone else who has a distracted momentary lapse of judgement.
Plenty of tech savvy younger people who should know better fall victim to those scams too.
