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

VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> wrote:
 

A *bit* more info about verifying phone numbers here
<https://www.androidauthority.com/google-ditch-sms-codes-authentication-details-3529425/>

 
So, you either have to wait for an SMS message to arrive from them, or
for them to get the one you send them.  SMS is not instantaneous.  You
wait.  SMS is not guaranteed delivery.  Some get lost, so retry, and
wait some more.  The security theater gets more in your way, and stalls
the login, all of which (this and 2FA/2FV) was to overcome boobs that
reuse the same weak login at every domain they visit (that requires a
login).  Use technology to overcome the weak point in security: users.

  Relax, will you!? It's a *one time* thing, to verify a *phone number*,
*not* to login, not to Gmail and not your Google account.

Wonder if I'll need to graft my smartphone to my hand to login to Gmail
at my desktop PC using an OAUTH2 e-mail client.

  Straw man / red herring. See above, it's *not* to login to Gmail.

  And yes, they are crap articles. Get over it!