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Wait, if my phone can access the Internet, why would I use an untrusted computer to access GMail? I can't see a compelling use case for this. It would be more
by ot 15y ago
Wait, if my phone can access the Internet, why would I use an untrusted computer to access GMail?
I can't see a compelling use case for this. It would be more useful to have my phone generate a one-time password without requiring to be connected.
- pak 15y agoThere are other Google Apps that don't work as great on a mobile device. Try Docs on an iPhone, for example. Also, imagine you need to print out a 30 MB PDF that somebody just emailed to you. Not enamored with QR codes as a solution, though; I still maintain that the vast majority of Americans have no idea what they are and find them, in general, to be a gimmicky pain in the rear. I agree that what you described would actually be more useful, but also probably harder to do (offline = native app).
- saurik 15y agoSome people prefer keyboards?
- nl 15y agoCost provides some compelling use-cases. If you are overseas, roaming costs are crazy. I'd consider paying them to download a single .png (QRCode) and then use an untrusted computer.
- mseebach 15y agoThe QR code is displayed on the unsecure connected computer. Your phone network is used to perform the login, so it very little data. A logical next step would be an app that can streamline the auth a bit (have your username prefilled from the Android account) and send the auth to Google via SMS (often easier and cheaper than getting started with dataroaming).
- estel 15y agoGoogle do already provide a set of one-time passwords for those using two-factor auth. I've already added them to a document on my phone for precisely that purpose.
- bkaid 15y agoI'll be using this in the morning to easily log into all my gmail accounts from work. When I leave work I have a logoff script that clears all my cookies. This logs me into all gmail accounts that I am logged into on my phone without having to log in several times.