Re: Google will no longer send SMSs with six digit codes for verification

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:
 

So, you either have to wait for an SMS message to arrive from them,
or for them to get the one you send them.

 
No, they also say:
 
«Google spokesperson Ross Richendrfer reiterated that SMS is mainly
used as a security and anti-abuse check, but there are plenty of
security challenges, like phishing and traffic pumping. Consequently,
Google plans to reimagine how it verifies phone numbers over the next
few months. Instead of entering their phone numbers and receiving a
six-digit code over SMS, users will see a QR code they need to scan
with their phone camera.»

Not relevant to my statement of having to wait for SMS messages (text or
QR image content) nor there is no guaranteed delivery of SMS messages.

To where is the SMS message sent?  To the phone.  Okay, I'll see an SMS
message with a QR image.  Then what?  Do SMS apps have embedded scanning
of the content of SMS messages to then use an embedded QR decoder to
show the text embedded in the image (which obviates the whole point of
supposedly securing the text string in an image) that I then have to
copy/paste into some web prompt? 

I'm interested in what are the mechanics involved in getting an SMS
message containing a QR image to then decipher into a text string to
copy and paste into some web prompt.  Maybe we won't know until Google
uses us to alpha test whatever scheme they come up with.

So, take a photo of the qr code.

I'm supposed to take a photo using the phone where the SMS message
arrived with the QR code?  I don't think they make smartphones that are
yet that bendable where I can point the phone's camera at the display of
the SMS message on the screen.  I won't be getting the SMS message on my
desktop to then snapshot with a phone camera.  The desktop not a phone.
The phone is (must) be a smartphone, but how do I take a photo of or
scan an SMS message to run through a QR decoder to convert to text to
then copy/paste into a web prompt?  I'm holding the smartphone.  An SMS
message arrives containing a QR image.  Then what?

Somehow, on the phone receiving the SMS message, there needs to be a
means of scanning the QR image in the SMS message.  Is that doable (and
without the addition of more software, like an authenticator app)?  Do I
take a screenshot while the SMS message is displayed to then open that
screenshot file into a QR scanner app (to then get the text encoded
within the image which used to be sent as text in an SMS message)?

You're saying it can be done.  I'm asking how.  Once the SMS message
arrives containing a QR image, then what?  No smartphone is so bendable
that its camera can be pointed at its own screen.