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.
That sounds great!
You can still do it with any TOTP app on your phone too!
What year is it?
Not so long ago I saw one of the employees of the treasury department with a shitload of those keychains.
Sound about right for a government. No apps, just physical fobs.
It’s an insurance company.
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!
I used to have that same token. Thanks for reminding me about my old job.
Same, but fuck that government contractor clusterfuck.
It’s not good to repeat so many characters in a password. 069420 is much safer.
I once got 111111 on mine
There’s an org in ireland called the RSA (road safety authority) and their logo is really similar to RSAs
