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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: 6 Mar 2025 15:00:39 GMT
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VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
> "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

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> > You are login into google in your computer; the browser you are using, 
> > or the mail application you are using displays a QR code, and tells you 
> > «take a picture with "name of app" in your registered phone, number 
> > ending in XXX». You comply, and in seconds you are authorized to 
> > complete login to google in the computer.
> 
> "name of app" is?  Would have to be one that connects back to my Google
> account.  Play Services, Google app (aka Google Assistant), or what?

  As Carlos later said, the name of the app (if it's an app, it probably
will be part of Google Play services) will have to be determinded,
because the functionality - verify a phone number by a mechanism using a
QR code - does not exist yet.

> That would provide the mechanism used to complete the Google Prompt.

  As Carlos said, stay focused! 'Google Prompt' has nothing to do with
the to be developed functionality, nor with any other QR code use.

  'Google Prompt' is a prompt you get on your phone to tap to verify
it's *you* (i.e. one of your registered devices), nothing to do with
your *phone number* (the device can be a SIM-less tablet, i.e. the
prompt *cannot* relate to a phone number)..

  So forget about 'Google prompt'. I brought that up due to a question
from AJL, nothing to do with the topic of the OP.

> What if I'm using a web browser on the phone?  The web browser on the
> phone can show a QR image the web site presents, but then what?  It's
> not like I can point the camera in the phone at the web page in the web
> browser on the phone.  Does "name of app" scan the screen?

  *If* you would be using a web browser on the phone in some kind of
verification/authentication procedure, that procedure would obviously
not be using a QR code.

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