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

VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

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?

  Not in the referenced (web) articles and sofar nobody has (read:
could) come up with specifics.

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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.

  In the use of QR codes I am aware of, the QR code appears on the
screen of your device (mostly a computer) and you 'take a picture'
(actually you only maneuver the QR code within a viewing window) with
your smartphone/tablet.

  That's for example the way it works for linking (adding) a new device
in WhatsApp and when I want to use my phone as an (2FA/TOTP)
authentication device for the websites of our banks. (I.e. on my
computer, I go to the login page of my bank's website. A QR code
appears. I use the bank's app on my phone to 'take a picture' of the QR
code. And I'm logged in.)

  See also Carlos' responses. He said the same thing. And, as he said,
this is a known and trusted procedure. And, by the looks of it, the
procedure Google is going to use to verify phone numbers.