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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Google will no longer send SMSs with six digit codes for verification
Date: 4 Mar 2025 18:51:26 GMT
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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!