What's the big G up to here, then? It seems the
Gmail team has been tinkering with a new secure method of accessing your precious email. Type your credentials into your phone, then scan a QR code in the browser to log in. It's ideal for public machines where typing your password might gift your credentials to any key-logging software. Sadly though, it seems the venture was just an experiment, with Google employee
Dirk Balfanz confirming so on his Plus account. So, we might not be accessing our Gmail sans keyboard anytime soon, but with said staffer also teasing that his team are working on something "even better" who knows how we'll be logging on in the near future -- let's just hope it's
not this.
Google demos QR code Gmail access, claims something better in store originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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