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

On 2025-03-07 04:21, VanguardLH wrote:

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

The occasions when I had to check that SMS have been very rare, not even
once a month. Going to the kitchen to fetch the phone once a month is
not a chore.

 Try logging into Walmart, or Home Depot, or your bank, or anywhere that
currently uses 2FA via SMS to complete a login.  It's hardly once a
month that I'm visiting web sites employing 2FA.  It is EVERY day
multiple times per day.

You are changing goal posts. Google doesn't ask me even once a month. That's the context of this thread, Google.

Once Google switches to QR codes, and however
they transport it to your Google account to complete login, how long do
you think it will be until other web sites adopt the same security
mechanism?  Remember when OAUTH and then OAUTH2 was unknown to users,
and look at it now.  The plague will spread.

Of all the mail accounts I have, only googles use oauth2. In any case, it is no biggy for me to pick the phone, it is always near me.
Banks are switching to some non SMS method since some time, involving their already existing bank app on the phone. That's the issue, that SMSs are not considered secure for identification purposes. Using some custom app on the phone seems to be the preferred method. It doesn't matter really if it is matching a QR photo, or a text transmitted to the app.
Going against the times not wanting to use a mobile phone is not going to work for anybody.
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Cheers, Carlos.