I would have expected them to ask me to message them, in order to resolve the issue of not having access to my old email. Instead, they assume that I still have access to it, by simply contacting my email provider!

If I could do that, I wouldn’t have lost access to it through would I?

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    27 days ago

    not an SMS

    OMFG YEEEEEEESSSSS I HATE THOSE I’m not even super duper security focused I just love the idea of even a bot farm has to guess a code within a 30 second window

    Meanwhile sms codes usually expire between a ten minutes and an hour, usually a half hour, but thats if at all

    As much as I hate them they’re better than nothing :/

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      I doubt bruteforce has been used in one of these attacks. The service should detect a bot entering many combinations per second.

      The main problem with SMS is that someone could social engineer the mobile operator support to give them a new SIM.

      Probably not something you should worry too much about unless you are in any way a target, but still.

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        27 days ago

        I also said way less than what I was thinking but you pretty much summarized the other half of what I was thinking with people being able to get the authenticator which is in this case the message

        I also just plain don’t like them

        Idk why beyond the reasons I said