[Info-vax] Two-Factor Authentication

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <00B46DE2.DEF08968 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 

> In article <qoprpg$741$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
> >In article <00B46D04.C1A896A4 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
> >@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 
> >
> >> I don't have a phone that receives
> >> SMS.  
> >
> >Get a Nokia 3310 or 3330.  I'm still using the one I got almost 20 years 
> >ago.
> 
> They have wired phones that do SMS?

The Nokia 3310 can be had for free or for a dollar or two used.  Very 
robust, no frills, long battery life (as long as a somewhat more modern 
battery is used; the original ones suffered from the memory effect).  
Interestingly, it will still work when more-modern protocols won't, 
because the latter will be decommissioned to free up bandwidth for the 
even more-modern ones.  You can probably get a contract where you pay 
for only stuff you use, and receiving SMS is free.  But you can use it 
in an emergency to ring someone.  As far as I know no security issues at 
all.

Having said that, if someone sends an SMS to my landline, it rings and a 
computer voice reads the text of the SMS.  Really.

(Actually, I don't have a traditional land line anymore.  I still have 
the same number, but it is now with another company and VOIP.  I kept an 
analog land line for a long time, mainly because it would work without 
power.  But power outages are extremely rare, and these days cell-phone 
usage is so cheap that the cost of an analog land line is no longer 
justified.  (If there is a large-scale power outage, then cell phones 
probably won't work either, but then neither would land lines, as the 
switchboard needs power even if the end units don't.)