Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: 8MB sms pic Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 08:12:50 +0100 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <8q1nbf-hkn.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> <121120182025189475%nospam@nospam.invalid> <121120182142286742%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Ny7jhGvaPhyLgQtfZrtxsgxFdkyV43TnXOA1IeId24c4fclJLS Cancel-Lock: sha1:mtmzJDuAfL4eXMa+iv6ZxVYdOpo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 In-Reply-To: <121120182142286742%nospam@nospam.invalid> Content-Language: en-CA Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:57449 On 13/11/2018 02.42, nospam wrote: > In article , 123456789 <12345@12345.com> > wrote: > >>>> It's not (only) for "credentials of forgotten logins". 123456789 >>>> mentioned quite different use for SMS, for which there is no >>>> practical general alternative yet. >> >>> there definitely is a very practical alternative, one which is also >>> significantly more secure *and* works offline. >> >> If MY vendors only alert by SMS then there is NO alternative. > > yes there is. choose vendors that take security seriously. Ha, ha :-p > >> It's kinda >> like Facebook. If my family only uses it I have no alternative. Course >> I could give up SMS alerts and Facebook photos but that's not a >> reasonable choice for me. YMMV. > > it does v. No, it doesn't. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.