The first and last time AIM was hacked

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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