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Googleis officially moving away from using SMS messages in its Gmail account two-factorauthenticator.

QR codes will also solve two other concerns related to SMS authentication methods.

Isometric demonstrating multi-factor authentication using a mobile device.

The second being the authentication will no longer be reliant on the phone service providers abuse and fraud protections.