[Info-vax] Two-Factor Authentication

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qouao5$bta$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
writes: 

> 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.

> > I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

In other words, it speaks to humanity with the voice of machines.  :-D