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Gmail will stop using SMS for two-factor authentication

Google is planning on getting rid of SMS two-factor authentication for Gmail to address a myriad of security issues.

Sending a code to your personal phone via text message has long been an option Google offered to verify your identity, but it has unavoidable security issues the company wants to address. By tricking a provider to send multiple SMS messages to a number a criminal operation controls in a process called "traffic pumping," they can even make money on each text, Google says. In another sign that the government will be friendlier toward the cryptocurrency industry during the Trump administration, the SEC said it won't move forward with any enforcement action in a case against Robinhood.

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