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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

besides many banks requiring SMS 2FA still, I usually only talk with non-app-using people over e2ee RCS

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

The banks are borderline criminally negligent because they exclusively use SMS for 2FA.

Simply, it is insufficient.

I get that they want the SMS information on file, and that's understandable, but give people another option at least, Holy hell. It gives my inner IT secops brain an aneurysm.

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