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goldenarmyesterday at 1:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

Regarding how easy simswap is in 2026, it's dangerously stupid from Google to rely on SMS


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qingcharlesyesterday at 3:28 PM

I wish it was. I've looked everywhere for several years for anyone offering this service so I can get into my 2004 Google account that they enabled SMS 2FA on one day, without any notice, but it has the wrong phone number. I have the username, password and the recovery email address is set to another I own too, but without the SMS code I'm hosed.

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cute_boiyesterday at 2:23 PM

I don't know why verizon etc.. don't charge like $0.25 cents per sms. Then these provider would stop sending too many sms.

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