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Originally Posted by HarryT
Perhaps worth noting, though, that you don't need a mobile phone. You can send an SMS to a landline (in the U.K., at least) and it'll speak it to you. Two-factor authentication is a very good idea, from a security perspective.
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that is sort of true - i have disabled it for our landline though, as incoming texts are charged for even if unsolicited spam. & we were getting billed occasionally.
our phone is from Virgin Media but BT handle the SMS forwarding , I believe. I had to call BT to opt out.
I have wi-fi tablets but they cannot receive or send SMS. I Like it that way, it's a whole class of malware I don't have to worry about.
Amazon' TFA is not really secure at all, because you can tick an option when logged in, saying don't bother to ask in future
the general trend towards
you cannot use our online banking unless you can receive SMS codes whenever you need to do anything, is annoying.
my bank issues a secure key generator gizmo, which suits me.
My wife's bank faffs about with codes sent to browser that you then have to speak out loud to a robot who calls you on the phone, and that fails if you install certain pop up or ad blockers. And saying "code what code, I can't see a ***** code to the robot does not help !
meanwhile back to amazon and how the family music plan shared payment thing works, I now have 3 contradictory answers from amazon, to what happens if my daughter joins the family plan, via her own fire tablet, registered to her own account, and then tries to buy music, or tries to use the shared card for physical goods. I'm not sure they understand their own fairly new product .
thay are saying that if I invited you say as "family" you could join, and you could do that even on your own amazon device, registered to your own account, and that you then can " see" and have some ( undefined) access to the shared payment card that bought the familty subscription, but if you then buy some music via 1 click on your device, who pays & who is the owner...
It's messy. if
you are buying and owning it, then why do we need this shared payment method thing at all ?