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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 doesn't work in the US...at least not on my landline.
I don't object to two-factor authentication, but I do object to forcing the use of a cell phone. As others have said, cell phones don't work everywhere, and they are easily lost/broken. If you can't get your money out without your cell phone, but you need the money in order to buy a new cell phone, what do you do?
A company I do work with is dealing with an issue right now with a business paypal account. The person who set up the account is no longer with the company, and she set the cell phone number as her company phone. When she left the company, she returned the phone, and, as is policy, the phone number was cancelled and the phone given to a different employee with a new number.
We are trying to change the bank account that the money goes into, and unfortunately, in order to do so, we have to input a code that is sent to a mobile number that we no longer have. We have tried to call paypal, and so far no luck. This has been going on for 2 weeks now.
So yeah...you can keep your "cell phone as authenticator", thank you very much.
Shari