This reminded me of a Mr. Show sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(probably nsfw, ymmv)

This should really be modded up.

The most appropriate answer to a problem is sometimes the result of listening to both your teammates/staff and even the customer. It's difficult to keep your pride from interfering and causing you ignore people who you feel know less about the subject matter or have little experience.

This is the truth, some customers are not partial to jumping through hoops for secured access, at all.
For those of us that want the hoops, why don't these companies offer you the ability to opt-out of the 'workaround' security practices?

I cannot believe I didn't think of MX records as a big vulnerability here.
Thank you sir, for noting this in your post!

I approve of this thread.
Carry on!

I really appreciate this comment. Thank you.

Disclaimer: I use Tracfone.

Net10 is owned by Tracfone, which is also a "no-contract" cell phone provider. I think they piggy back on AT&T and Verizon's networks. When you purchase either of these phones, your minutes will expire, however. Particularly with Tracfone, you have about 3 months to use the minutes. Also, Tracfone bundles 3 months of service extension with each purchase of air time.

If you purchase the Air Time Cards from retailers, you are never asked for any identifying information. If you fill your minutes online, you need to create a login to their web service.

If you go with either, ask yourself these questions:

Do I talk constantly, and use large a large volume of minutes?
      -If yes, go with Net10; they sell large blocks of minutes but they have short expiration dates
      -I think minutes are cheaper than tracfone...but don't quote me on that

Do I use the phone very little, and use very few minutes?
      -If yes, go with Tracfone, you get a consistent $0.03/minute rate and minutes expire more slowly (you can actually purchase a
        longer expiration date if you need to, without needing to buy minutes)

As an aside, they used to have free incoming text, if you used a Nokia 1100 phone. There was another phone with this feature, but I can't seem to find any information on their web page. As far as I can tell, they don't offer this feature anymore.

I see you've been modded, "Informative." Either some folks failed to get the joke, or you have some information about the FBI that I'd like to see. Care to share? ;)

One note on Exult (not Exile!)... If you want to play U7 or U7:SI, the underlying combat system is borked. The Exult team still hasn't figured out how the Armour Class system works in those games. On a related note, the U7 series plays VERY WELL in DOSBOX. No Voodoo Memory manager problems, just pure fun, and the graphics scale beautifully!

Trendmicro owns that app now. http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis I think it was started by the anti-malware community though. I think the forum name for the dev was Merijn. His website is no longer in service.