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I think it would be nice if Google provided a rsa key fob for those of us who do keep a crap ton of stuff in their gmail.
by catch23 17y ago
I think it would be nice if Google provided a rsa key fob for those of us who do keep a crap ton of stuff in their gmail.
- staunch 17y agoI'd pay $20-$50 year for it. I trust Google server-side security more than my own ability not compromise my own account.
- LogicHoleFlaw 17y agoI have a key fob for my MMORPG character account. It seems ridiculous to me that my video game has greater security than my email or even my bank. It was a $10 one-time fee to have the fob shipped to me.
- blasdel 17y agoMMORPG accounts are a particularly perverse case -- they're a perfect commodity for automated exploits, there's a very high floor on value (the subscription cost), and law enforcement doesn't give a shit.
- Timothee 17y agoI would love having a key fob for my bank accounts, if anything just not to have to make stuff up for the "security" questions…
- whatusername 17y agoBanks here are offering SMS confirmations as a 2 factor Auth. So I can transfer money to existing accounts fine - but any new account or bill requires a code that is SMSed to a pre-set number (and resetting the # requires a SMS as well) key fob for google would be nice though. I'd be pretty tempted to pay
- catch23 17y agoI'm guessing there's no incentive for Google to care. If your gmail gets hacked, Google loses 1 user. (even though you lose a lot more) If someone hacks a blizzard account, it screws up the blizzard economy.
- dangoldin 17y agoI'm not sure I buy it. That one user can probably cause a lot more users to quit than the Wow player. The screw up to the Blizzard economy will be temporarily and will be corrected in less than a day.
- randallsquared 17y agoThe screw up to the Blizzard economy will be temporarily and will be corrected in less than a day. Why do you think this? If by "corrected" you mean the user will get their stuff back quickly, that isn't so in my experience. Sometimes, some stuff will be restored quickly, but it might take days or weeks for some of it, and chances are that you'll never see some of it back. I'm not sure how they do logging, but such delays imply that it must be pretty human-intensive to get a record of what's been taken and restore it.
- dangoldin 17y agoI thought you were referring to the macro level (ie someone selling all your stuff). I think from the micro level you probably lose your char but no one else in the universe is going to be affected significantly.
- run4yourlives 17y agoI smell a business idea... keyfob service provider.
- Adaptive 17y agoYep. Race on to the first OpenID+key fob provider. Go!
- RossP 17y agoVerisign's Personal Identity Portal (PIP) already does this. I use a keyfob to log in using my OpenID on a regular basis. https://pip.verisignlabs.com/ https://pip.verisignlabs.com/ I signed up with this to give me an easy way to use a keyfob login on websites for a trip I'm doing next year where I want access to my websites but don't want to type my password on public internet terminals.
- afed 17y agoI would definitely pay money for this.