Open Sesame – Sign into Google on Public Computers Using Just Your Android Phone
Plenty of us come into contact with public access terminals on a daily basis, especially those of us spending the better part of our day at colleges and universities. While menial, logging into your account each time you use these services can become a pain compared to just having your browser save credentials. Before I’m berated, I’m sure many of you would never dare dream of storing passwords in your browser and for you, the public access computer becomes more a matter of what keyloggers may be hiding on the system. What I’m getting at is that in either case, wouldn’t it be nice to have a digital Open Sesame speed up and secure the process? Google thinks so too, and so they have created a page that randomly generates QR codes. What good is that you may ask; well here’s how it works.
First, point your insecure browser to accounts.google.com/sesame. Now pull out your Android and open any app capable of reading QR codes. Take a shot of the generated QR code and activate the browser link. When your phone visits the URL encoded in the QR code, that will signal to Google’s servers that you’re at this computer, and the public browser will automatically log you into your Google account without any typing on your part.
Pretty slick eh? Give it a go.
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