Article about recently announcement plan by Google to remove SMS as 2FA option for Gmail and replace it with a QR-code-based system, covering media hype, risks of SMS solutions like SIM swaps, greed and man-in-the-middle attacks and social engineering, benefits of SMS solutions like simplicity, reliability and no data usage, numerous problems with QR codes as a security method, potential ostracization of poor and old people without smartphones, possible privacy implications, and more
