Two Factor Authentication (2FA). The SCAM of the Century. Defensive Strategy.

Each time a platform is hacked you get aware of the purpose of multi-factor authentication, and the suspicion it naturally might have been an inside job.

I have to disagree. There is not ever a valid reason to request KYC information - the whole thing is a canard centered around "illictit financing" since 9/11 and the Patriot Act. How many terrorist plots has the AML regime thwarted? None. The purpoes of KYC/AML is to provide the legal& regulatory framework for digital ID, CBDC social credit surveillance state the UN/WEF "public private partnership" wants to foist upon us. "Illicit finance" can mean anything. Today it's human traffickers and terrorists, tomorrow it will be independent ranchers and farmers.

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Like most people, I find 2FA a bit annoying at times. And think customer should be given the option of turning it on in the first place, and not have it turned on automatically.

The longer you’re here you see everything is a scam 😅

For gym memberships, etc., I use someone else's phone number.

gmail requires a phone number to get a gmail account. I've refused to use a two step though after the initial. Should we just get temporary phones?

This is all so overwhelming, my throat is tightening up and I have this sense of impending doom. We're all screwed... There's just no way around it is there

Its too late.. i have a big headache!

I love when people complain about Facebook then have a Facebook account! 🤣🤣🤣 I've never had a FB account and stay in contact with friends and family and conduct business just fine! If you don't want to get Zucked, don't bend over for Big Tech!!

Holy crap!!!!!!! Anyone who has yubikey link to their Google Mail. Can you help me verify! For some weird reason on my Brave browser when I forget password, try another way, the option of 2 SMS on my cell phone number verification pops up. Even though I disable recovery phone number and 2 SMS number. It's still able to send a text verification to my phone number. How is this possible? It's completely bypassing yubikey. For some reason this only happens on the brave browser. Why?

The majority of your audience is men and women stalk men way more than the other way around. Something for you to think about.

I love that it takes about 20 minutes just to log into your bank account. They send a code to your email. Now you have to 2 factor authenticate your ID just to get into your email... so you can log into your 2FA bank account! What could go wrong??

They always trick us into helping them by hurting ourselves.

I gave up a long time ago. I realized that being useless and broke was my best defense 😂

You haven't mentioned Truecaller.

KYC 2FA is causing allot of trouble, aspecially when you trade crypto or stockmarkets.

I live half the year in Central America and half in the USA. One day, WhatsApp, the only communications app used in Central America dropped me as they could not confirm my number while I was in the US. I had to use my US number to reconnect. Of course what will happen when I'm in Central America next time? Henceforth I'll try to use WhatsApp for web in the USA - after I get back to CA and change the number back. I'm still not completely sure how that all happened as I was panicked when I discovered I'd lost contact with half my people!

This will only work temporarily until they identify your service is a VoIP line and then they get banned/blacklisted as not being real phone lines. That's what has happened with a lot of these providers...only a matter of time, and unless you want to keep jumping ship every couple of months/years - the effort is futile unless you have endless cash to throw at this problem and time to manage all of this.

I use to use privacy for virtual cards, and eventually my bank caught on and banned those as well. What am I suppose to do, change banks every year? It's getting ridiculous to protect your own data/info out here.

"Leak" data? That sounds like an "accident". I think you mean "sell" data, which is intentional.

Thank U Rob 🙏♥️🕊😎

I just watched a video on SS7 signaling on cell phones. There they intercepted the 2FA code generated, and the phone that it was supposed to be sent to have no information it had been sent. End result, a hacker can get into one of your services, have a 2FA generated, fully access and tamper with your account and you will have no idea it has happened until you find the account emptied of money. 2FA does not give secure security.

What you are saying is fade away the known number, and use the new number for friends etc. Why not keep the old number that friends already know and then get the new number to use for 2FA. All you have to do is to update with the new number only a few staff, bank, government etc. That is easer that informing hundreds of people of your new Number.

i Rob,

Could you do a comprehensive report on the new Tesla Model π phone? I think it would be a great topic to cover.
Thank you!

Google and Facebook were fucking relentless at getting my phone number. I loathe these corrupt corporations. Who remembers Google's motto "Don't Be Evil" ? They sure dropped that, pretending it never existed. Clearly they've chosen to be Darth Vader.
Facebook has sent me endless Friend Requests from Russian Trolls.
I'm a tech nerd and I can't keep up with this stuff. Meanwhile stupid institutions suck up everything they can and don't know how to protect it. Healthcare, UCLA! which stupidly used social security numbers for every person who interacted with the university. Corporations. Home Depot still stupidly does not accept touch Credit Card payment. You have to put your card in the slot which sucks up a lot more information.

My bed is gonna eat me alive if I close my eyes! 🥶🥶🥶

Data is worth more than gold in this era.

Awesome information, just all your videos are sooooo long! Could you make them shorter?

People used to threaten Radio Shack employees with physical violence when they asked for your phone number. Millennials decided they'd rather give it out to literally anyone who asks and then they wonder why they get so many spam calls.

I'm in the phone book. Should I be concerned?

business subscription....to scare you

Ffs. Now we live in a society where you need multiple emails AND multiple numbers

“I have a family plan with T Mobile”
“How many people are in your family”
“It’s just me”

mobile phone numbers never were secure and any.
when a company does not offer any alternatives to sms, the interest is not security at all.

and i never go with that platform and i usually also leave the support quite a clear documentation on why sms auth is a joke and has nothing to do with security

I feel like you are dancing around the real threat , being killed or arrested.

2FA=too fucking annoying.

If you do some digging, you can get a virtual number to receive texts at. These numbers can just forward texts to your email. I've used one for years now. To the best of my memory, only one site that I have tried it on wouldn't allow it. Cost? You can get a year of service for about what a month of a normal cell number costs.

I deny Facebook access to my contacts, and yet they keep suggesting me people I add to my contacts.

It is your bank that request 2FA via you banking app, not the platform. as you bank already has you number, due to the app you get you notification via you banking app, you approve it. it STOP anyone with your card information using it. I am not sure where you get your information from, but it is very wrong.

2FA via SMS is insecure for decades, besides it is a great way to steal your account, so it actually decreases your security.

2fa via SMS is hardly secure.

2FA just like any other form of online activities can be abused as always by those who see the loop hole

I agree with you in most aspects. but, in the other hand, dont you thing that "privacy" and anonymacy are helping scammers arroud the world stealing money to everybody and commiting crimes knowing that the police can do nothing thanks to guys like you????

exactly, not long after musk bought twitter, they wouldn't allow me to login without putting in my phone number saying that my login attempt was "suspicious", it was either i lose the account or give them my number. never in over a decade of using the platform had i been required to give my phone number, total invasive scam, decided it was not worth it and gave up the account and stopped using twitter altogether.

TIKTOK is not the problem. I can easily decline their request to share my contacts. let's talk about WHATSAPP, owned by FACEBOOK, which you can't even USE unless you share your contacts (there is a workaround FYI). why do you think they give you free calling? you can make phone calls for free on a wifi-only phone. how generous of them! no, you pay them by giving them ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS PHONE NUMBERS. and email addresses, and full names, and whatever other info you have for them in there. you literally have to buy a phone, tell no one the number, and call out as a restricted number every single time to protect your phone number's privacy.

thank goodness for this guy. I thought I was the ONLY PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE that noticed that all the companies were suddenly trying to get your phone number and NOBODY CARES. This guy gets it. This guy is my spirit animal.