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

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
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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? 

 
  AFAICT, "an SMS message with a QR image" is a figment of your
imagination!
 
  I think such a thing is not mentioned anywhere and not even implied
anywhere.

The delivery mechanism is defined where?

  The referenced articles mention that *use* of a code in an SMS message
will be replaced by *use* of a QR code, but that does not mean that the
QR code is *in* an SMS message. (I think that would be obvious, because
an SMS message is too small to hold a QR code, not to mention that it
can only hold character data, not binary data.)

I figured it could be MMS (Multimedia Messaging) instead of SMS (Short
Message Service).  MMS can be used to send pictures.  I have automatic
downloads of MMS disabled in my messaging apps.

However, upon some further reading, Google Prompts looks to use
notifications instead of SMS/MMS messages.  Maybe.

  So perhaps it's best to come up with an actual quote from the
referenced articles, which leads you to your assumption, instead of
going on and on about something which is very likely a straw man / red
herring.

That's the crux of the problem: there are no details on how QR images by
whatever delivery mechanism are to get decoded into strings by the user
to input into a waiting field.  All of us are just guessing for now what
are the possibilities.