On: SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

[hkchad]

I have garbage cell signal in my house, was only an issue for sending/receiving large pictures/video's over iMessage, apparently those don't send over WiFi for some unknown reason as well... I called Verizon and they sent me a Fem2Cell, problem solved.

[hedora → hkchad]

Those definitely work over wifi. iMessage strongly prefers it.

Maybe verizon is incompetent or malicious?

What happens if you’re overseas or in a cell dead spot with wifi? The latter happens to me all the time in the city.

It’s amazing how many hip “use your phone to order!” restaurants are in cell dead spots, and have set up wifi access points as a workaround.