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Re:The first and last time AIM was hacked by toast0 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:45AM (#28613172)
Two factor auth (password + RSA token) was used for vpn/ssh from home and to access high security stuff (which I never got access to) at Yahoo when I joined in 2004. If AOL was having trouble with security, requiring it for admin tools would have been reasonable and feasible in 2005.
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Re:The first and last time AIM was hacked by dboreham on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @01:02AM (#28613227)
Netscape used RSA SecurID tokens when I joined in 1996. I still have kine, but the battery long since expired.
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Re:The first and last time AIM was hacked by 7773777 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @07:44PM (#28623489)
Presumably you can get a new watch battery for it, non?
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Re:The first and last time AIM was hacked by toast0 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:50AM (#28630913)
The tokens are not intended to be servicable. Even if you replaced the battery, you couldn't set the time, so I don't think you could sync your token and your verifier.

And I don't know if these things had protections against being opened anyway.

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