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by zumda 5062 days ago
The bar code was actually just a code to initialize the code generation (I think it is based on that randomly generated seed and the time, so that then server and client generate the same keys). You could have also typed in the code by hand.
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You're absolutely right. My parent was talking about giving Google his/her phone number, which I was responding to :)