.. this true benefit to britain probably be able to spend his time driving his 3rd hand bottom of the range tricked up beemer at double the speed limit around town like many of his community compatriots. Until it gets repossessed.
"Things can be discussed over email, zooms, phone calls, messages"
Unless you work for some mickey mouse web company or similar doing unimportant BS, then problems are best solved and designs generated when everyone is together in a room with a white board.
"the requirements were specified verbally and no one wrote them down. "
Then you don't work in a serious company if they don't minute important meetings.
Cart before horse - something has to be discussed before its put in a document. You don't just get some random engineer to put in whatever he thinks is suitable.
Ah right, thats all, simples! Then the hacker automagically gets the victims passwords too from a SIM which doesn't contain them, incredible.
" And then after that, all your accounts fall like a house of cards."
How exactly if there's no way to get at the passwords? SMS is simply one link in the chain.
Everything is vulnerable to social engineering attacks if you have a gullible enough mug. Your point is moot.
Sure, but people need to be made aware of it in the first place. Just putting it in a document isn't enough.
"Musk won't hire people unwilling to work in an open office. "
I'm all for home working, but some jobs simply require teams to work in the same physical location - eg safety critical engineering. I speak as someone who worked in aerospace. You CANNOT have something slip through the net because it was missed on a teams chat or email, people have to literally and figuratively be in the same room when discussing important topics. If you disagree then fine, but you're the wrong person for the job.
If all it took was grabbing card details from a contactless card to go on a spending spree the concept would have been stillborn.
"The very fact that NFC payment methods are easier "
How do you think a contactless bank card works you dribbling mouth breather.
No problem using cash here in the UK. In fact I know of one cafe in east london than ONLY accepts cash. Yeah, probably a tax dodge but even so, your card or phone is no use there.
Someone will have to explain the point of apple pay and whatever the google equivalent is. You spend all the time setting it up just to duplicate the functionality of the contactless bank card you already had. Ummmm... why?? Just use the bank card! Not only frankly is it easier to use a card than faff around getting a phones NFC and/or a QR code on the screen to work with a reader, but it makes your phone a horrendous single point of failure if you lose it.
"It has no such mechanism"
It doesn't need such a mechanism - the app is perfectly capable of iterating through
The argument against SMS is way overblown. For it to work an attacker would not only have to gain access to your account details but also spoof your phone on the phone network. Possible? Yes, likely? Unless a nation state is after you - no.
And many people still don't use a smartphone - good luck getting an auth app running on a nokia 6310 and having one running on the same machine as you're logging in to you account on isn't smart.
"These are userspace problems to solve."
These are application problems to solve. The application thats playing the sound/music/whatever needs to be told which sound device to use. This isn't rocket science - how do you think this stuff worked back in the day even before pulseaudio came along? Fine, if someone wants to create a gateway process that apps just connect to and it marshals everything for them then fine, but its hardly a must have.
Many people are unenthusiastic about their work.
