The first and last time AIM was hacked

Re:The first and last time AIM was hacked by bluedino on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @07:14AM (#28615076)

Back in 2000 or so, it seemed a status symbol of how many RSA tokens you had on your keychain. The more you had, the more important systems you had access too.

Don't forget that PayPal's original idea was a Palm Pilot app that replaced all those pesky hardware tokens.

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Re:The first and last time AIM was hacked by exikyut on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @07:36AM (#28615212)

Ha, cool. How many tokens did you ever see at once? :D

Presumably PayPal were intending to do an app + hardware module - or was this essentially "LeT's MaNaGe RSA KeYs UsInG NoN MeMoRy PrOtEcTeD CoMmOdItY HaRdWaRe RuNnInG a NoN SaNdBoXeD KeRnEl"?

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Re:The first and last time AIM was hacked by bluedino on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:48AM (#28615683)

According to _Founders at Work_, they just reverse-engineered the keys and emulated them on a Palm Pilot

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Re:The first and last time AIM was hacked by FDSGSG on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:22PM (#28619851)

> "LeT's MaNaGe RSA KeYs UsInG NoN MeMoRy PrOtEcTeD CoMmOdItY HaRdWaRe RuNnInG a NoN SaNdBoXeD KeRnEl"

In retrospect, this would have been at least as good as the real securid dongles.

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