{"id":36790,"date":"2022-08-17T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36790"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:47:57","slug":"smartphones-a-single-point-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/17\/smartphones-a-single-point-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones: a Single Point of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=32396685\">neverminder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=32396685\"><p>i can&rsquo;t log in to any of my banks without my phone. Most of the systems in my workplace also require phone app authentication. I can&rsquo;t do any of those things with just a PC or laptop. Smartphones being the smallest and portable are surely the most lost and stolen. If someone got a hold of my PC or laptop - they would be able to do some damage, but not even close to if they were able to access my phone. Everything everywhere nowadays requires some app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems wrong that Macs and PCs are in some cases now second-class citizens when they should be able to support a superset of the capabilities of a phone (well, aside from SMS).<\/p>\n<p>Being able to run iOS apps on an iPad or Apple Silicon Mac is a potential workaround. As is Google Voice.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, as with <a href=\"https:\/\/m.vip.symantec.com\/\">Symantec VIP Access<\/a>, there is also a desktop version of the app, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean that your bank or service actually supports registering multiple devices.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/04\/alternative-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-being-spearfished\/\">Alternative Ways to Protect Yourself From Being Spearfished<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>neverminder: i can&rsquo;t log in to any of my banks without my phone. Most of the systems in my workplace also require phone app authentication. I can&rsquo;t do any of those things with just a PC or laptop. Smartphones being the smallest and portable are surely the most lost and stolen. If someone got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-08-17T13:26:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"d290c90e-7e5c-4c1d-9a5a-7d2d0647af78","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-08-17T19:47:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0pDJDn5cTB2aWn0tBkeveA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2014,1920,31,2078,2255,145,85,30,2077,48,1393,1140,2090],"class_list":["post-36790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-m1","tag-google-voice","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-ios-apps-on-macos","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-security","tag-short-message-service-sms","tag-travel","tag-two-factor-authentication-2fa"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36791,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36790\/revisions\/36791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}