Google Tests Secure Login with QR Codes

[JMcEntegart]

Google already offers users several options to help ensure the security of their Gmail account. However, never one to rest on its laurels, the company is testing out another secure log-in option that uses QR codes.

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[freggo]

Interesting idea of course. My hacker mind instantly makes me wonder of course how that can be abused and circumvented 🙂

 

[4745454b]

I don't see how this is a good idea. Like Freggo, I'm left wondering if all I have to go is get ahold of someones smart phone for a bit. Go to site, scan, enter URL, and I'm into their Gmail acct? Potential for abuse is rather high I would think.

 

[lashabane]

The person that came up with this should receive a double bonus for their ingenuity.

And then be fired because someone was able to hijack it.

 

[tlmck]

I have yet to give them my phone number and never will. Nor do I use a smart phone. Just have no need for one. They need to get off it and go to a pin system if they want numbers.

 

[zak_mckraken]

I can see this system implemented into my banking site, which I use 2-3 times a week. But for email, which I use 2-3 times a day? Seems a bit too time-consuming for what it's worth.

 

[__-_-_-__]

"We always work on improving authentication, and try out different things every now and then."

IT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE EXPERIENCES WITH SECURITY ISSUES

 

[f-14]

pity goldman sach's CEO's didn't find it and use it, i'm so inspired i thought of 5 ways to exploit it for incredible illegal financial gain in less then the first 3 seconds of reading the paragraph of how it works.
Near Feild Technology is so exploitable it's going to be a mf disaster that can be used to cause a financial meltdown of the world when it hits it's peak if exploited to it's fullest at the right time.