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A lot of people in this thread saying SMS is bad for 2FA. It’s not. Just because you can send spoof the sender field doesn’t mean you can spoof being a receiver. Only the valid number will ever receive the 2FA code.


SMS is bad for 2FA not because it can be spoofed, bit because of SIM-swapping attacks that let the attacker trivially take your 2FA codes from you---gaining access to your protected accounts while you're locked out. NIST recommended against using SMS for this reason in summer 2016.


But who can read the messages that go to the valid number? How can unwanted people gain that access?




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