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[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago

Put this one on my résumé

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

You shouldn't have posted that, I just hacked into your mainframe.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I used to have that same token. Thanks for reminding me about my old job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Same, but fuck that government contractor clusterfuck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Used to play a drinking game with coworkers and those tokens. We would pick high or low and whoever had said number on the roll over had to buy everyone a round of drinks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You can still do it with any TOTP app on your phone too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

That's a good point - which of my 14 registrations should I pick, I wonder? 🤮

There was just something much nicer about the tangible decide that an all app can't come close to

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's not good to repeat so many characters in a password. 069420 is much safer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Unless someone was manually inputting these to try them out, wouldn't it be all the same if it was repeating or not?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I once got 111111 on mine

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not so long ago I saw one of the employees of the treasury department with a shitload of those keychains.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Sound about right for a government. No apps, just physical fobs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

Well, they have a security advantage. I know Google moved over to requiring a USB MFA key for their employees a few years ago, and saw a reduction in successful phishing attacks.

I would imagine one of these fobs is cheaper than a USB key. It also can work without being plugged into a computer, which is good.

Authenticator apps are nice and all, but are not going to provide as much security as one of these. Apps live on people's phones, and especially if it's a personal phone, you may not want to trust its security. If it's stolen or hacked, your multi-factor authentication just got less secure.

If you don't want personal devices in a building as well, these are useful.

Lots of reasons these are still totally good today!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

It's an insurance company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

There's an org in ireland called the RSA (road safety authority) and their logo is really similar to RSAs