Gmail to ditch SMS authentication.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It is certainly no secret that using SMS text messages for security codes used to authenticate your identity is far from ideal. Just as the tech industry is slowly moving away from passwords to passkeys that take a more secure biometric approach to logins, the use of code-generating apps and even app-less approaches to two-factor authentication have increasingly become the norm in recent years. But SMS has always been sai...