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

On 3/6/25 8:21 PM, VanguardLH wrote:

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

My sensitive apps only require ONE 2FA login (including Walmart). Once the
 host device is blessed it can be set so that no more 2FA is required. So
 like Carlos I seldom need SMS 2FA. Only the apps on my new toys for the
 first time. Course if I was paranoid I could set it to ask on every login.
 But I don't. Apparently you do??

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.