Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Google will no longer send SMSs with six digit codes for verification Date: 4 Mar 2025 18:51:26 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <803e9lxp44.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1begjrynfhjra$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <1bfu5iribmwb4$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> X-Trace: individual.net K5ASjTDtGtIjxFV5oIPWDAcvJsjQCLRdlln5ky7PHJSr338odc X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:/T41Pynh65Tih1TDtn8gCvAMVDQ= sha256:k5ajYi04XNXwB1tNbrK7hJvg8b3BP5jNXlgzBu9TJqE= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2141 VanguardLH wrote: > Dave Royal wrote: > > > A *bit* more info about verifying phone numbers here > > > > 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!