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Posted by negura 5 hours ago

Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message(discuss.privacyguides.net)
46 points | 25 comments
dvh 1 hour ago|
Any Gmail person can tell me why Gmail is tolerating Gmail phishing emails that use Google's own services (e.g. https://storage.googleapis.com/savelinge/... ?

More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665414

torben-friis 28 minutes ago||
Spam is getting horrible lately. I get all sorts of new techniques including:

- using legitimate sites to bypass filters, like sending you a bill through a legitimate bill-creation site

- pretending to be a tracking service for something you supposedly ordered, then over the course of days pretending the package got lost on the way and offering a discount code for the 'purchased' amount, expecting you to use it on their phising site.

Gmail not only fails at spam classification, they classify these messages as important and nag you with first priority notifications and summaries.

dewey 1 hour ago||
The same reason spam filtering is hard. It's not possible to catch every misuse of the service without too many false positives.
dvh 1 hour ago|||
The same 5 urls has been used for 3 months
dewey 59 minutes ago||
That doesn't really change the fact that it's hard. Do you know how many full movies are on YouTube that infringe on copyright? How many pirated streams are hosted on S3? How many piracy sites are behind Cloudflare. It's just very hard to police at scale and if something is flying below the radar it will be there for a while. They probably spread out their assets over many accounts, or even use misconfigured buckets with write permissions to drop some files in there.
unholiness 33 minutes ago||
https://xkcd.com/277/
hydrogen7800 9 minutes ago||
"It's so easy when you don't know how". I'm not sure if this phrase is in common use at all, or if I just misheard it once and attributed it to mean that when the details of a problem aren't obvious, its easy to conclude the solution is simple. "Why don't they just do ___?"
cyanydeez 35 minutes ago|||
Ok, it's even harder when you do not care because they people are either freeloaders or locked into your solution because it's a customized mess.
Aurornis 26 minutes ago||
> Supposedly, using the QR code on the smartphone triggers an SMS sent from your phone to Google in order to verify your phone number.

Does anyone have a better source of information than this one forum comment from someone who thinks scanning a QR code is enough to get your phone to send a text message?

8cvor6j844qw_d6 1 hour ago||
Recently helped a small business set up a Google Workspace account and we hit a wall during registration.

Told the owners that if Google is already being difficult during signup, imagine being locked out later with client work on the line. Pulled up a few horror stories about Google lockouts to drive the point home. They ended up with another workspace solution.

Aurornis 29 minutes ago||
> and we hit a wall during registration.

What does this mean? The scanning a QR code and sending a text message from this article, or something else?

super256 1 hour ago|||
With which workspace solution did they end up with?
p0w3n3d 32 minutes ago||
I assume "next leading brand" ;P
thrownaway561 8 minutes ago||
Everyone hates on Microsoft, but their platform is 50x better than Google. Personally nowadays I would be looking at Proton if I was going to setup a workspace for my company.
windexh8er 2 minutes ago||
This is hilarious. Microsoft has had many issues and outages with M365 in the last few years. I mean, I guess if you don't rely on mail, then sure.
opengrass 53 minutes ago||
I got this a few weeks ago, it was a URL like "sms?:number" which tries to pre-fill text in app. Didn't work for me (Fossify) so I had to copy the number and verifier text from that URL and send it manually. It's for saving money spent on providers like Twilio.
dsr_ 33 minutes ago||
... and gives me a message on my primary phone: "This number has been used too many times."
findbizonline 5 hours ago||
When did it start?
infoinlet 1 hour ago||
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spwa4 40 minutes ago||
The real problem for privacy is that governments are increasingly outsourcing the verification of identity and bot protection to private companies.
carlosjobim 22 minutes ago|
Outsourcing? Governments have never been involved in bot protection or online identity verification for anything else than their own websites.

It's like saying that the government has outsourced burger making to McDonalds.

CWwdcdk7h 36 minutes ago|
Last time YouTube wanted to verify my phone number it was easier to find a free service to receive SMS than for Google to deliver it to my actual phone. And Google didn't care I "verified" a number assigned to other side of the world.