Ask HN: Which Wireless Carriers Protect Against SIM Swapping & Port-Out Attacks?
14 by CAPSLOCKSSTUCK | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I've been a Google Fi customer for a long time, and one of the pros is that you need to log in to your Google Account to make service changes (plus getting a hold of support is difficult, which is good in this context). However, I'm trying to move away from Google services and want to use Fastmail on iOS instead of Gmail on Android, but Google Fi requires the use of a Google account (e.g. for the Fi app, which provides critical functionality IIUC). So to make a long-story short, I'm looking for another wireless carrier, but I'm concerned about SIM-swapping attacks (I know, I shouldn't be using SMS-based 2FA, but many services fallback to it and don't allow this to be disabled). So, which carriers offer some kind of protection against SIM swapping, ideally something more than a 4-digit PIN that's texted to you (looking at you Mint)? During my research, I found https://www.efani.com/, but this seems like overkill for a non-high profile person. I'm based in the US. Thanks in advance.
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