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SMS is a much bigger issue if you are in another country, temporarily lose access to your phone, or work in a building without phone reception. It's prone to SIM swaps and could be intercepted by other apps on your phone. It requires having a fixed, serviced phone number, which people don't always have: children, homeless people and recent immigrants might struggle with that.

All of these scenarios happened to me, and I'm a fairly normal person.




SMS isn't an issue because you can just take out the SIM card and insert it elsewhere. What you're talking about wasn't the subject I was addressing.




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