Comment Re:Safeword (Score 2, Informative) 36
I had to use this at a job once. They were too cheap to buy the hardware tokens and made us use the
software tokens instead - which of course was only for Windows and I didn't have a Windows machine at home. Since there isn't a time component, I generated a whole bunch of passwords, but them on a piece of paper, and carried them around.
While the time sync problem is annoying with SecurID, it does prevent users from doing things like printing out lists of the next tokens (or saving them in a file on their computer so they can automate their logins).
software tokens instead - which of course was only for Windows and I didn't have a Windows machine at home. Since there isn't a time component, I generated a whole bunch of passwords, but them on a piece of paper, and carried them around.
While the time sync problem is annoying with SecurID, it does prevent users from doing things like printing out lists of the next tokens (or saving them in a file on their computer so they can automate their logins).
