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This. 2FA (implying a phone number which is most likely most important number in your life) for a link sharing web site? You must be joking.



> This. 2FA (implying a phone number which is most likely most important number in your life) for a link sharing web site? You must be joking.

SMS is no longer recommended as a means of 2FA, as it's very vulnerable. Some sites still rely on it, unfortunately. However, it appears Reddit does support TOTP.


Somehow this reminds me of a wise saying: "Every problem in CS can be solved by adding level of indirection. Except for the problem of excessive number of indirections".


They do, but TOTP is only as secure as the seed stored by reddit.




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