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dsmithatx on March 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I could have hacked any Facebook account

There are ways around this for some things but, probably not with services like Facebook. For example with Amazon I use 2FA with a cellphone. As a backup I use a hardware token and an Admin account. If my cellphone gets stolen I pull the 2FA card out of my wallet.

orionblastar on March 8, 2016 [–]

Provided that nobody steals your wallet and you don't lose that card.

Pharaoh2 on March 9, 2016 | [–]

In that case you use the backup codes that you had printed and put in a safe a register a new 2FA token.

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