Agreed, SMS messages are a pretty poor effort secturity-wise. They don't even support hardware options like U2F keys (aka Yubikey). I used to have an authenticator app setup, that is, up to a few months ago. I bought a new phone and went to get all the 2FA google authenticator app stuff setup and I can not find the option anywhere in the security settings. Apparently this happened: https://www.mocana.com/blog/paypal-disables-two-factor-authentication-logins It would be nice if the company were straitforward about what was going on, they have wasted 45 mins of my time looking around for where the correct button went on the controls screen. The support help pages still have instructions for pre-2FA suspension and now we are stuck with insecure methods of account authentication.
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