Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
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Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
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Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#2When did it start?
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#3Recently 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.
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#4Any 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
Re: Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
#5Any 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
The same reason spam filtering is hard. It's not possible to catch every misuse of the service without too many false positives.
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#7Any 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
The same reason spam filtering is hard. It's not possible to catch every misuse of the service without too many false positives.
The same 5 urls has been used for 3 months
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#8Recently 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.
With which workspace solution did they end up with?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same reason spam filtering is hard. It's not possible to catch every misuse of the service without too many false positives.
The same 5 urls has been used for 3 months
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.
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#10I 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.