Identity theft often goes through an unexpected route: conning the carrier. Go Talk Wireless wants to stamp out SIM swap fraud at the source.An interview with the CEO of the security-focused MVNO Go Talk. Identity theft is not a joke. Millions of families suffer every year. And the most pernicious form attacks those of us that thought we were doing the right thing: SIM swap fraud. For years, security experts have urged regular people to take better care of their personal information security. Simple steps like just having a different password for every account can only go so far ? once somebody has access to your email then they can go after every account that uses that for a login. So we push people to use two-factor authentication (2FA), and it seemed like getting a one-time code texted to you each time you tried to log in was the solution: you have to know the password and have access to your phone (itself behind its own passcode). Except for one teeny tiny problem: with only…
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