Re: Malicious SS7 activity and why SMS should never by used for 2FA

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

I would start with cellular carriers and nations that intentionally take
steps to block anything VoIP as a threat to their revenue model. Or because
anything vpn/ipsec/whatever related is a threat to local Internet
censorship laws.

Plenty of places the sort of ipsec tunnel used for vowifi is not usable on
whatever consumer-grade cellular or local broadband ISP you might find.




On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:11 PM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:

> On 4/19/21 06:50, Julien Goodwin wrote:
>
> > This is already probably past the point of being on topic here, but you
> > tickled my personal favorite one of these.
> >
> > My airline of choice (Qantas) has mandatory SMS second factor, after
> > perhaps a mobile carrier requiring it for support one of the most
> > facepalm-worthy uses of SMS 2FA I've seen.
>
> It's interesting that VoWiFi is meant to support both voice and SMS,
> domestically and when one travels. So I'm curious why SMS's would not
> work with VoWiFi when traveling to a country that won't deliver your
> SMS's generically. After all, VoWiFi is, as far as I understand it,
> meant to be a direct IP tunnel back to your home network for both
> billing and service.
>
> If anyone has more clue about this on the list, I'd really like to know,
> as my mobile service providers hardly know what I'm talking about when I
> ring them up with questions.
>
> Mark.