[whypretend]

What about the sim farm I use to delegate my SMS OTP codes to? No VOIP numbers don't work for everything, no using the same SIM card doesn't work, no I don't want to worry about running dozens of phones with batteries and no I'm not even sending messages.

Local TOTP key as a second factor should be more standard.

Especially if I'm already paying for a service you shouldn't need SMS as a crappy veiled proxy for some human verification.

Supposed to pretend like this doesn't just force people to use more phones?

[timthorn]

So please respond to the consultation. Q2 is literally asking for other uses of multiple SIMs that the policy wonks haven't thought about yet.

[orf]

You say “no, no, no” as if it is obvious why you’d need to delegate SMS OTP codes to a sim farm.

[whypretend]

Many clients are dependent on me to ensure their accounts are safe and backed up - lockouts with no recourse are real. I will not tolerate having a singular SIM card being the point of failure across a client pool, especially due to some nebulous aggressive policy.

[ec109685]

Why don’t you want to use the same SIM card? Is it because you don’t want services to be able to correlate usage across multiple services?

[whypretend]

I need a reliable way to manage OTP codes for many clients, having one SIM is just not good enough. Partially the same problem because I've run into limits - having a separate card is just less likely to be a problem.

[CPLX]

Geniune question - what’s the actual use case here? It can’t be just you personally logging into various services right?

[costco]

https://smspva.com/

Immensely useful services like this without which for instance people would not be able to scrape social media services at scale.

[whypretend]

Mitigating account lockout risk across lots of clients. Separate SIM for each client, having account lockouts are unacceptable. Yes, I've had problems with no recourse.

[DANmode]

If it was?