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RE: What is U2F? If You Use Text Messaging As Your Two Factor Authentication For Coinbase/Gmail, You Need To Read This Now
Good article. It amazes that pretty much all the (Australian) banks and (Australian) paypal only allow SMS authentication. I'm not even an IT person and I still know this is shit and open to abuse.
Secondly, it's a massive pain in the arse when you're overseas and in a country that doesn't have a roaming agreement with your network (Vodafone - I'm looking at you!). You are therefore locked out of your accounts until you return to a country that you can access SMSs from. This has happened to me numerous times.
However, I now have a follow up question - what are people's thoughts on google authenticator/authy etc?
google authenticator is decent and better than SMS. But it is not as secure as U2F.